Hey there!
After browsing these forums amongst others I brought my iBook Clamshell back to life.
It now has a 32GB CF SSD and 576MB of memory on this little Blueberry 300MHz. I managed to put Tiger on it with some Open firmware commands and restoring the DVD to a partition on the CF card to install on to another partition on the iBook and it's running TenFourFox... pretty well considering it's age with Classilla browser agent.
Just some questions:
1) Why can't the Airport card detect open no password wifi networks? Have even unsecured networks updated their standards? It can see WEP and WPA but not WPA2 (obviously) but now it seems Unsecured Wi-Fi. I even tried sharing the Wi-Fi from my Laptop without a password and the iBook couldn't pick it up.
2) Has anyone managed to get 3GP videos playing on YouTube. For some odd reason H.264 is not this iBooks friend so I think the only way YouTube will be feasible on this thing is with 3GP but I can't get it playing in TenFourFox, did anyone figure out the solution yet? I followed the TenFourFox guide but all that does is allow you to download in 360P in H264 and that didn't even work!
And this is the biggie!
3) I still haven't seen a decisive winner of Linux to put on this iBook and I'm looking for recommendations. My use case for putting Linux on this would be to have the most modern BUT usable browser out there. That means it runs the fastest, if need be it's versatile to change the user agent on it and it supports the most modern web technologies going. (Like TenFourFox supports responsive web design etc) Fellow iBook users, what distro of Linux are using? Mint, Debian or LUbuntu? Let me know!
Here are some pictures of it!
EDIT: Update 02/05/19
I made a video showing off exactly what this is capable of, feel free to watch from 4 mins in as the beginning is basic upgrading stuff this forum knows.
After browsing these forums amongst others I brought my iBook Clamshell back to life.
It now has a 32GB CF SSD and 576MB of memory on this little Blueberry 300MHz. I managed to put Tiger on it with some Open firmware commands and restoring the DVD to a partition on the CF card to install on to another partition on the iBook and it's running TenFourFox... pretty well considering it's age with Classilla browser agent.
Just some questions:
1) Why can't the Airport card detect open no password wifi networks? Have even unsecured networks updated their standards? It can see WEP and WPA but not WPA2 (obviously) but now it seems Unsecured Wi-Fi. I even tried sharing the Wi-Fi from my Laptop without a password and the iBook couldn't pick it up.
2) Has anyone managed to get 3GP videos playing on YouTube. For some odd reason H.264 is not this iBooks friend so I think the only way YouTube will be feasible on this thing is with 3GP but I can't get it playing in TenFourFox, did anyone figure out the solution yet? I followed the TenFourFox guide but all that does is allow you to download in 360P in H264 and that didn't even work!
And this is the biggie!
3) I still haven't seen a decisive winner of Linux to put on this iBook and I'm looking for recommendations. My use case for putting Linux on this would be to have the most modern BUT usable browser out there. That means it runs the fastest, if need be it's versatile to change the user agent on it and it supports the most modern web technologies going. (Like TenFourFox supports responsive web design etc) Fellow iBook users, what distro of Linux are using? Mint, Debian or LUbuntu? Let me know!
Here are some pictures of it!
EDIT: Update 02/05/19
I made a video showing off exactly what this is capable of, feel free to watch from 4 mins in as the beginning is basic upgrading stuff this forum knows.
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