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1. Firefox for mac powerbook g4 how to#
2. Firefox for mac powerbook g4 for mac os x#
3. Firefox for mac powerbook g4 mac os#
4. Firefox for mac powerbook g4 mp4#

So my next post will be suggestions how to add back tiger to be able to dual boot the powerpc, Otherwise, its just a novelty and I would get rid of it on that older machine.The disk on my PowerBook G4 is going bad. Heck its even fast on my Intel 6 year old pc, which it also brought new life too. But Ubuntu on this iMac is screaming fast and a pleasure to work with. Gosh I'd rather use Ubuntu than the new stupid windows, which locks you into single screen applications at a time and then limits your functionality. It is probably a little memory slow for even Ubuntu (as it screamed with Lubuntu on it), But it also shows that Ubuntu has a great place on a more modern mac, which I have triple booted and typing this for you. I am thinking Dual boot or just get rid of Ubuntu as maybe a web browser would give this old box more functionality and the drive would spin all the time.

Firefox for mac powerbook g4 mac os#

And I do get to play on it, where I never could with the Mac OS (stupid emulators!) Anyways. So is Ubuntu a great install on PPC? It does seem to crash a bit, as the machine is ten years old.īut then everything is up to date. It all works although you then wonder what the heck good is this? Simultaneously, you find web browsers that promise to work with tiger and leopard. Until you search and find which gives you linux drivers you install and voila, you finally have a working computer. Flash is not working with Firefox and you can kiss watching pretty much any video goodbye. Then there you are, wireless, desktop can find apps, and then maybe if your lucky your sound comes works right away. Now if your like me you have an extra usb modem hanging around which works great but it take about 100 trials to get the hardware to recognize the airport card. That also provides the driver to get the internet working.

Firefox for mac powerbook g4 mp4#

Free software to convert mp4 to dvd format. Just unplug the ethernet connection if the disk is spinning and it will find libraries from the cd. It does this rather quickly, but it is live and the connection get stuck. I stuck in the 10.10 disk and looked up a command to install unity. It took forever to load, but I did have to use the live command to get it to boot.Īnd the actual command was not Radeon 1024x but instead change the refresh to Next I had to figure out how to change this from a server to a single computer reboot. What is weird is I think I downloaded the server disk by mistake. Right away Ubuntu wipes the disk and begins loading. What was not working was the wireless so I had to Ethernet from my computer. I'm not kidding it took a while and it was not pain free.īut my basic steps were. For 17' PowerBook G4 it should be live or live Ok, so here is the answer. On booting live CD you will need to use live You can try other resolutions, depths and refresh rates to suit your machine. Once Lubuntu is installed, you can install gnome and unity but it is not quite perfect - for example login screen remains in a Lubuntu configuration. I am assuming you have ATI Radeon not NVidia GPU. You probably have sorted this by now, but Lubuntu is less painful because it it does not seem to rely on radeon. Well I just checked bios and its running Saucy Salamander. Tried it installed LUBUNTU well its the desktop environment tried 13.04 no luck. PowerPC 7447/7457altivec supported Please help me get my old mac some functionality back. At the very end I just want to dual boot it or run it off a usb.

I am really trying to get UBUNTU on the Power PC. I already tried LUBUNTU, but that was no better than tiger since firefox is not supported and I cant get videos to play or sound on the computer. Please contribute to MR: Fill in Mac OS 9.2.2 & X 10.4.2 (PowerBook G 4 1.67/15-Inch and 17-inch) description now! Macintosh Repository. Which one to choose depends on your PowerBook’s operating system.

Firefox for mac powerbook g4 for mac os x#

All those browsers are for Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) but Classilla is for Mac OS 9 while still it's a PowerPC operation system.