and if you enjoy unix flavored shenanigans on purpley max i hope you'll consider subscribing to the channel i have some really over the top shenanigans planned for a really really rare macintosh so it's definitely worth sticking around the powerpc challenge has been going on for a few years and it's a pretty fun time i'll link to the thread on tinker different down in the description last year i decided to tackle gaming we installed adelie linux on my powermax gNUMBER_TOKEN and used it as a public minecraft server for the powerpc optimized version of minecraft now that's a pretty powerful machine almost modern with its dual NUMBER_TOKEN-bit processors at least when running a modern NUMBER_TOKEN-bit linux this year i want to tackle limitation which i think is the most interesting thing about this challenge specifically just how far can you push extremely limited hardware if you give it a fully modern operating system it's also a great excuse to pull out one of my favorite machines this grape imac and boy oh boy is it limited hardware it's a revision d tray loader from the second run of imax after the original NUMBER_TOKEN bondi blue what it's bondi bon die right bruce sorry sorry i forgot it's named after a beach in australia bondi beach it has a NUMBER_TOKEN megahertz gNUMBER_TOKEN processor and thanks to a broken ram slot it's limited to just NUMBER_TOKEN megs of memory to put that into perspective there's probably more ram inside your wi-fi router and a five dollar raspberry pi zero has double the amount of memory as this thing does not to mention the fact that it uses a NUMBER_TOKEN-bit power pc architecture the vast majority of operating systems from mac os to most linux distros dropped support for it many many years ago on the linux side there is adelie void and a few older but still pretty modern versions of debian and ubuntu and then there's bsds many of which are surprisingly still fully supported for NUMBER_TOKEN-bit mac powerpc today we're going to be looking at openbsd NUMBER_TOKEN mac ppc not only is it the latest release actually just about four months old as of this filming but it's also the easiest to install and get going on a power pc mac at least for the base system in fact i tried it on a whole bunch of my other power pc macs and i was stunned to see it detect all sorts of weird hardware options it even configured this sonnet wireless card right out of the box but although the base system is incredibly easy to install with the guided walkthrough which we'll see shortly getting to a graphical desktop was not so easy in fact i had to manually configure xorg mostly going off of NUMBER_TOKEN year old threads on various linux forums for clues and it was a tedious and frustrating experience it took me like nine hours of trial and error and honestly i almost gave up on it i finally got it working at about midnight last night now i was inspired by this blog post at a link below of someone with the same imac gNUMBER_TOKEN grape tray loader who got openbsd working with graphics and they provided their xorg conf file but unfortunately it didn't
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