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<blockquote data-quote="Flexor the Mighty!" data-source="post: 2945505" data-attributes="member: 1013">Well I was never a &quot;mac user&quot; so to speak.&nbsp; My main computer is still a Windows machine, but I love fooling around with OS's.&nbsp; Anyway the G4 was old and getting slow, it was having trouble playing some video files and stuff, and I had most of the parts of my old windows machine, an Athlon XP 1.8Ghz CPU with memory and a motherboard just laying around.&nbsp; So I decided to take the DVD drive and the hard drives out of the Mac and put them in an old case with that stuff and put Linux on it.&nbsp; If the Mac had been faster I may have stayed with it, but I probably would have put Ubuntu PowerPC version on it then anyway, or maybe dual booted.&nbsp; OSX is cool, but I just wanted to try something else.What kind of sucks is I had just bought a flashed AGP video card to replace the old Rage 128 card in the mac. Oh well, it was only 40 bucks.Ubuntu 6.06 is excellent but you may have to edit a few config files to get everything working properly.&nbsp; I only had to tweak 2 files though, and I don't mind working from the command line.&nbsp; It detected all my hardware fine, but video drivers can be tricky.&nbsp; If you like getting into the heart of a system its fun though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flexor the Mighty!, post: 2945505, member: 1013"] Well I was never a "mac user" so to speak. My main computer is still a Windows machine, but I love fooling around with OS's. Anyway the G4 was old and getting slow, it was having trouble playing some video files and stuff, and I had most of the parts of my old windows machine, an Athlon XP 1.8Ghz CPU with memory and a motherboard just laying around. So I decided to take the DVD drive and the hard drives out of the Mac and put them in an old case with that stuff and put Linux on it. If the Mac had been faster I may have stayed with it, but I probably would have put Ubuntu PowerPC version on it then anyway, or maybe dual booted. OSX is cool, but I just wanted to try something else. What kind of sucks is I had just bought a flashed AGP video card to replace the old Rage 128 card in the mac. Oh well, it was only 40 bucks. Ubuntu 6.06 is excellent but you may have to edit a few config files to get everything working properly. I only had to tweak 2 files though, and I don't mind working from the command line. It detected all my hardware fine, but video drivers can be tricky. If you like getting into the heart of a system its fun though. [/QUOTE]

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