New Linux OS for G5 owners: Gentoo LiveCD for PowerPC G5 an...

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Link: New Linux OS for G5 owners: Gentoo LiveCD for PowerPC G5 and will run at topspeed according to dist. (http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/11/11/2238226.shtml?tid=106&tid=137&tid=174&tid=185)

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[cb911]

cool. i'm still waiting for some spare time so i can install Gentoo on my PB. i bet that would fly along on a G5. :D

[Sun Baked]

Originally posted by cb911
cool. i'm still waiting for some spare time so i can install Gentoo on my PB. i bet that would fly along on a G5. :D Only if it include wings for the G5, with fans currently also at 100%, would probably be a enough to at least taxi onto the runway. ;)

Hopefully somebody can hack the hardware enough to build the fan control soon.

[Powerbook G5]

Then it can at least hover with Linux with those 9 fans going at full speed. :D Perhaps that is what happened to that guy in the G5 commercial...he got blown out of the house after installing Linux and all 9 fans kicked in at full throttle.

[ITR 81]

Originally posted by Sun Baked
Only if it include wings for the G5, with fans currently also at 100%, would probably be a enough to at least taxi onto the runway. ;)

Hopefully somebody can hack the hardware enough to build the fan control soon.

Actually don't need to hack it since the firmware is open. It's actually called Openfirmware which controls the fans not the OS. The Openfirmware only kick in a 100% to make sure the sys doesn't have meltdown in event of bad crash.

[Westside guy]

So are any of you familiar with the g4 version of the gentoo live cd? I was thinking about trying it, but I don't understand why there appear to be two iso images (disk 1 and 2). Isn't the idea behind a live cd that I just boot off one CD and am running the distro? Or is there just too much stuff to fit on a single CD? You know, sorta like the old days when DOS got too big to fit on a single floppy. ;-)

[Powerbook G5]

I hated those days...had to switch disks 3 or 4 times just to start up the computer and load something. "Make sure you mark your boot floppy and your system floppy to tell them apart." Then you have to supply a password each time, which everyone insisted not to write onto your floppy disks, but hell if you can remember what password goes to what disk and such when you have 15 black floppy disks lying on top of your desk.

[LimeLite]

Originally posted by ITR 81
Actually don't need to hack it since the firmware is open. It's actually called Openfirmware which controls the fans not the OS. The Openfirmware only kick in a 100% to make sure the sys doesn't have meltdown in event of bad crash.
The OS controls the fans independently based on temperature. When the OS crashes, the fans kick up to full speed because that is the default setting so that the computer doesn't overheat.