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Debian On Clamshell iBook
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Very cool, I like it. I enjoy working with Linux and hope if more get onboard, we can somehow turn the tide on future Linux development on these oldies but goodies.
I posted a video of Debian Jessie running on a Wallstreet Powerbook, seen below:
I got Debian Jessie 8.4 running on my G3 beige with matching CRT too
I was just looking at these 20-40$ clamshells on eBay yesterday thinking the same thing. That would be a pretty cool little project I think ... That or run OS9 on it and have fun with the macintosh garden catalog. Cheap entertainment
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Cool! Once I upgrade my Clamshell's RAM, I'm going to try installing Debian. Hopefully it will perform well, but there's almost no chance of that.
[doublepost=1474161298][/doublepost]I just watched the video, and performance isn't really all that bad considering that that Clamshell has a 300MHz G3.
[doublepost=1474161298][/doublepost]I just watched the video, and performance isn't really all that bad considering that that Clamshell has a 300MHz G3.
Never underestimate the mighty 300Mhz iBook......
Following the same obsessive and utterly pointless theme....
I find it amusing that whilst Youtube playback is still a thorn in the side for PPC users, with a change of codec, here we have full screen 360P playback on Windows 95/Virtual PC/300Mhz iBook....
I find it amusing that whilst Youtube playback is still a thorn in the side for PPC users, with a change of codec, here we have full screen 360P playback on Windows 95/Virtual PC/300Mhz iBook....
I posted this here once, donkey's years ago, but just in case some of the newer punters haven't seen this, I present full screen, smooth video playback on a TWENTY year old 25 megahertz Quadra 700, with, are you ready for it, 20 MB of RAM and 512K of VRAM. I worked on this very mac back in the day, back when I was involved in desktop publishing. As Dronecatcher said, its all about the codec, in this case, Cinepak.
Pardon the n00b question, but how does one get this codec on a PPC mac running tiger or leopard?
All of my Macs have Quicktime Pro which includes it - don't know whether it comes with the standard version as that doesn't have any export options.
MPEG Streamclip uses Quicktime codecs, and it's free - might be worth trying that?