[PLUG] I also will bring an old iBook G-4

[Vedanta Teacher]

John,

  Thank You, it still runs well; it just over heats with excessive use.
I don't think it's fast enough for the newer Mac OS systems.

Blessings,
Paul

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 1:21 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:26:43 -0700
> Vedanta Teacher <orevedantateacher at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >  I also have an old iBook G-4 I'll bring too. It is Tiger OSX 10.4,
> >37.46 gig HD, 1.5 gig ram. I "think" it's an old Motorola CPU.
> >
> >  I have the original discs but I'll be damned if I can remember the
> >installation password from 2004. We used to be able to get past the
> >Win (3.1 or 95 ?) passwords by forcing it to boot through the BIOS
> >(I didn't say that; I'm actually not in the room) but I don't know
> >if you can do it with the Mac OS.
>
> You can install the PowerPC version of Ubuntu on a G4. There may be
> versions of other distros that can be installed as well, but that is
> the only one I know of. I have the ISO of version 14.04 which we can
> burn to a DVD disk or USB stick. It will run live so you can try it out
> or you can install it.
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