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   Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:04:14 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

   My mom just gave me some cool retro tech I never knew she had!
   I think this iBook G4 was released in 2003? It was last updated sometime in 2007. Been in a closet for years. Still works!

   Obviously, I have to discover if I can slap #Linux on it!

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     Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:08:12 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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     • ざ おじめず

     @unclemez I know next to nothing about it, but it sure is a chonky one :)

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     ざ おじめず (unclemez@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:08:13 JST ざ おじめず

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     @killyourfm Macbook Neo (but old fashion) ?

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     Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:11:08 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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     • Corse_Pia

     @corse_pia Thanks! It's 22 years old so I expect it to run as fast as a snail. That's ok! might be fun to tinker with.

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     Corse_Pia (corse_pia@pouet.chapril.org)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:11:09 JST Corse_Pia

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     @killyourfm Hi

     it's a challenging idea.

     unfortunately, It's a power PC processor, with low speed.

     Mainly, the hardest problem to solve is the amount of Dram .

     You may succeed putting Linux on it, there are some PowerPc distribution.

     But It will be slow.

     Good luck.

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     Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:30:31 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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     • Deadlinux 🐧💀

     @deadlinux Neat! Do you remember which distro you were running? Yellow Dog? Debian? MorphOS?

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     Deadlinux 🐧💀 (deadlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:30:33 JST Deadlinux 🐧💀

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     @killyourfm Wrote my master's portfolio on one of those. I love the Mac app Textedit for some reason. But did most of the work in Linux (dual booted)

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     Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:35:41 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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     • Bill Ricker

     @n1vux Thanks Bill. That's what happens when you let the Ice Cubes mastodon app generate alt text :/

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     Bill Ricker (n1vux@mastodon.radio)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:35:43 JST Bill Ricker

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     @killyourfm Fwiw, power port is not in 1st view. From the left, there's a Kensignton standard lock-cable lock point, an RJ11 telephony jack for fax-modem, & a single RJ45 for 10baseT Ethernet.

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     Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:43:04 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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     • scops

     @scops FASCINATING! Just scanned some info about it. Thanks a bunch for the tip!

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     scops (scops@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 06:43:06 JST scops

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     @killyourfm
     You should give MorphOS a look on it :)

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     Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒 (killyourfm@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 07:04:37 JST Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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     • Cliff'sEsportCorner

     @CliffsEsport I don't think I've ever seen both an RJ11 (for telephony / fax / modem) and RJ45 on a laptop before!

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     Cliff'sEsportCorner (cliffsesport@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2026 07:04:38 JST Cliff'sEsportCorner

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     @killyourfm dual nics was that standard?