G4 Linux distro

[thedocta45]

I have an old g4 MacBook I wanted to toss a Linux distro on it any ideas?
looking at penguinppc.
wanted to be able to watch Netflix and listen to spotify

 

[Red Falcon]

To my knowledge, there is no Silverlight variant that exists for PowerPC.
The best distro for PPC is Yellow Dog Linux, but I doubt that a G4 will be able to play using Silverlight anyways, depending on the processor's speed and generation, not to mention Netflix does not run on Linux because of Silverlight.

As for Spotify, if it's Flash based, you're out of luck as there is no Flash variant for PPC, and what few alternatives exist are the equivalent to Flash 6/7.

 

[thedocta45]

so no real reason to jump from osx to linux.

 

[MrCaffeineX]

I had Debian running on a G4 desktop. I was limited to browsing [H]ere and checking my e-mail, so now it sits in my closet until I get some free time to mod the case and build a real PC inside it...

 

[Red Falcon]

so no real reason to jump from osx to linux.

No, just stick with OS X in this instance for Flash.
PPC isn't really that good under Debian distros, and is much more optimized for some RHEL (YDL) distros.

 

[jonathonball]

just to clarify... it is possible to get Netflix working in Linux using a combination of Wine+Silverlight+Firefox... but ATM it's technically Ubuntu only, there doesn't seem to be a PPC version, and performance isn't super (i have to turn off HD to get acceptable playback on my i3 laptop intel 3000hd)

so yeah, as stated before, you're probably better off on OS X

 

[Red Falcon]

^ Good to know that it can be done though.