Hi All,
Havn't been on here in a long time - recently dusted off my old PM G5 DC 2.3 and having a bit of a project (and a bit of fun) updating the TenFour's etc to see how useable it is in 2017, in fact been using it exclusively again for the past week.
Findings so far....
Browser - After updating TFF, LWK and Roccat and playing with lots of sites it looks like LWK will be my go-to but currently looking to tweak TFF over the weekend (thanks eyoungren for your excellent guides) as I'm a major FF fan on other platforms. Roccat is crashing non stop (v6.9) (will track down and delete it's plist files as well to see if i can make that stable).
iPhoto '09/Aperture - They are still better (for me) than anything on Windows or Linux which is either too complex for my needs or little more than a directory scraper.
Skype etc - Looking to make use of Fluid or TFFBox (I didn't know about that until last night and looking on this forum) to make 'apps' of web Skype, Telegram, Whatsapp etc if it's possible. If anyone has tried this with Skype in particular including using calling woudl be good to know.
Display - My old 23" ACD is in another room collecting dust so have hooked the PM up to my UHD 4k Samsung monitor shared with my PC which has spare HDMI ports, so using a DVI -> HDMI cable which seems to work (and look) fine at 1920 x 1080
Out of interest the spec is :
DC 2.3GHz PM G5
7800GTX 512Mb
16Gb RAM (had to reseat and jiggle a couple of sticks after it had been sitting for a few years for them all to be seen)
1 x OCZ Vertex SSD (startup disk)
1 x WD 2Tb 7200rpm
Software - Office 2008, Photoshop CS4, Acrobat 9pro, iLife Suite, lots of games - CoD 2, BF 1942 UT2004, Doom3, Quake 4, Amnesia:The Dark Decent, Halo, Knights of the Old Republic, Civ IV etc etc
Email - TenFourBird, 'Leopard Rebirth' theme pack (thanks! went on last night), Tunnelblick for PrivateInternetAccess OpenVPN, iStat etc etc.
My PC is dual boot Windows 10 (just for gaming) and Manjaro Deepin for everything else.
Look forward to getting back into the PPC world again
Havn't been on here in a long time - recently dusted off my old PM G5 DC 2.3 and having a bit of a project (and a bit of fun) updating the TenFour's etc to see how useable it is in 2017, in fact been using it exclusively again for the past week.
Findings so far....
Browser - After updating TFF, LWK and Roccat and playing with lots of sites it looks like LWK will be my go-to but currently looking to tweak TFF over the weekend (thanks eyoungren for your excellent guides) as I'm a major FF fan on other platforms. Roccat is crashing non stop (v6.9) (will track down and delete it's plist files as well to see if i can make that stable).
iPhoto '09/Aperture - They are still better (for me) than anything on Windows or Linux which is either too complex for my needs or little more than a directory scraper.
Skype etc - Looking to make use of Fluid or TFFBox (I didn't know about that until last night and looking on this forum) to make 'apps' of web Skype, Telegram, Whatsapp etc if it's possible. If anyone has tried this with Skype in particular including using calling woudl be good to know.
Display - My old 23" ACD is in another room collecting dust so have hooked the PM up to my UHD 4k Samsung monitor shared with my PC which has spare HDMI ports, so using a DVI -> HDMI cable which seems to work (and look) fine at 1920 x 1080
Out of interest the spec is :
DC 2.3GHz PM G5
7800GTX 512Mb
16Gb RAM (had to reseat and jiggle a couple of sticks after it had been sitting for a few years for them all to be seen)
1 x OCZ Vertex SSD (startup disk)
1 x WD 2Tb 7200rpm
Software - Office 2008, Photoshop CS4, Acrobat 9pro, iLife Suite, lots of games - CoD 2, BF 1942 UT2004, Doom3, Quake 4, Amnesia:The Dark Decent, Halo, Knights of the Old Republic, Civ IV etc etc
Email - TenFourBird, 'Leopard Rebirth' theme pack (thanks! went on last night), Tunnelblick for PrivateInternetAccess OpenVPN, iStat etc etc.
My PC is dual boot Windows 10 (just for gaming) and Manjaro Deepin for everything else.
Look forward to getting back into the PPC world again
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