What are some practical things to do with an old powermac g4,

You could install Gentoo on it, for real ppc Gentoo.

>>60238000
wouldn't that be even slower, with compiling and shit?

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>>60238011

>compiling
>slow

it's 2017, anon

>>60238022
>powermac g4

>>60238011
You could probably make it faster than Debian, but it won't be worth it. It will take a fucking week just to compile lxde on that thing.

>>60237960
Keep it around for a decade or two and sell it to a computer museum.

>>60238022
>it's 2017, anon
Does that look like 2017 hardware to you?

>>60237960
You could use it as a space heater

>>60237960
I use an imac g5 as a microsoft office machine when I want to work offline. these old macs are comfy as fuck

>>60238150
G5 are the ones that heat like crazy

>>60238206
Repurpose the case I guess?

Install OpenBSD on it.

find the most hipster shop in your area and get like 500usd

>>60237960
Upgrade to a G5 quad, anon. G4 and older are pretty much useless nowadays...

>>60238316
So are G5s

>>60238011
You always can cross compile in your render farm.

>>60238247
The cases are nice.
Just learn to remove scratchs in acrylic.

>>60237960
You can toy around with Amiga OS emulation via the Morph OS project. Morph OS is one of the few pieces of software that is PowerPC exclusive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06m8pF_8JpM

>>60238316
G5s are afwul except for repurposing the case. even the first intel mac minis are better

>>60238556
Morph is pretty impressive. Fastest OS on ppc

>>60240602
Why would you make it so ugly?

>>60237960
Install Mac OS 9.2, get into classic Mac OS software dev, and become part of the retroware scene

>>60240701
To match your face.

>>60238316
G5s are great Leopard/Snow Leopard machines, but they can't boot OS 9, so if you even want to run any of the older Mac software that doesn't play nice with Classic mode (mostly games) you're screwed.

Been considering picking up some manner of G3 or G4 machine expressly for old game purposes myself

>>60238556

Wow that actually looks pretty slick, and fast!