Installing Ubuntu Linux on a Power Mac G4 Cube!
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- It's about time for some more Mac-focused content! Today we're going to try and install Ubuntu Linux 5.04 on my G4 Cube.
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This has to be the smoothest OS install video with the least problems. Seemed to be basically no troubles at all, unless a lot was edited out.
Then I'm glad there's finally a video on the channel that's representative to the common modern install experience (though it graphically looks nicer these days I suppose)! 🙂
I just love watching Linux bring life back into old computers
2000s-era Apple aesthetic was peak
It really was. Theirs something so iconic about 1990’s-2000’s Apple designs. The 2000’s - 2006? were so futuristic imo. The iMac was fantastic.
Yes very true I love Apple's designs from back then but ever since the 2021 M1 max MacBook came out I kinda like the design because it takes the good stuff from that era and makes it better, the notch is kinda bad though.
@@AyushTH I don’t mind the notch since the menu bar takes up that space up there most of the time anyways
that version of ubuntu is ancient tho, its from 2005 i believe.
@@bootydaddy9934 oh yeah i know, i wish more people installed modern linux on really old hardware but there’s only a few distros that still support 32 bit
ShipIt was so much fun. Always made sure to get my new release discs as soon as they were available. I even asked for a bunch of them to show off at a school tech fair in HS. They sent me about 20 discs, many GNOME discs, but a handful of Kubuntu discs as well as a big pack of stickers. It was so cool of them to support my excitement. I handed out a bunch that day, and even did install demos on my Dell Inspiron. The sound didn't work and the Wi-Fi was borked, but I was happy to show anyone willing to sit and talk about it.
Reminds me of one of my newer Mac books but I hear there are some fixes these days to semi rectify the issues.
These computers are so cool, really an evolution of Jobs' NEXTcube, even down to the unix-based OS with macOS X
As someone who's using the Linux from 2010 as a full Linux distro user, I'm amazed to see old Ubuntu Linux on older computers. Great video.
Thank you!
@@MichaelMJD my pleasure Michael. I'm currently preparing my self for Linux LPIC-1, where I run my small UA-cam channel, so if you wish you can check out, perhaps leave a sub, it would mean a lot . . . .
IMO goes to show how the value of a thing can change over time even though the thing itself remains constant: you were talking about how you'd gotten that G5 tower for $2.50, just recently I had a *brutal* haggling session with a guy over a Windtunnel G4, a computer I can distinctly remember being considered e-waste not too long ago.
I also remember people snapping up computers like the G4/G5 to use 'as a cheap Linux box,' much as you're doing in this video, when nowadays you'd be immensely better served by a simple SBC/Pi. Wild.
My G4 was someone's discard... complete and working, and worse, they'd paid $3,999.99 for it (receipt is on the HD) and NEVER USED IT.
(To be fair, I haven't used it either... no love for MacOS... but couldn't let it go to the dump.)
@@Reziac Four thousand bucks for a PC they never used? Just... wow. Was the owner a Californian, or something? XD
The RPi basically revolutionized this sort of thing. It's amazing such a tiny PC is so versatile!
@@KimPossibleShockwave Actually, yes! Has all sorts of software on it, too...
@@Reziac Sounds par the course of Cali. smh Welp, nice find. :)
That's a really beautiful computer! Wish i had one.
Same
I’d love to mod one of these into something modern. It’s still a pretty amazing look.
Somebody made the '' most powerful imac G4''. ITS not the cube but its a good video
Quite surprisingly, there have been Power PC Ubuntu versions up to 16.04 in early 2019! Haven't tried to install any though, it's the kind of thing I'd like to do but never actually get to.
IIRC you can will get it on the most up to date versions as a community edition
I used to run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a G5 tower way back.
I ran Ubuntu (or Debian) on one of these as a headless torrent client as a kid, and the only thing that was more difficult and harder to get software for was my OG Xbox (which ran Xebian).
The PowerPC architecture didn't have many updated repos to install and update packages, but I managed to get the Xbox to run a Subsonic server to stream music that the Power Mac G4 Cube had downloaded to my phone.
It essentially worked like Google Play Music used to with a similar web interface, except it streamed lossless or encoded it down to whatever I wanted on the fly. Both were so much fun to get up and running, and I loved hearing the sound of the old hard drives on both of them start spinning and piping the music from the Cube to the Xbox and then finally to my phone/computer
That sounds like a fun project
I think this version of Ubuntu was the first distro of Linux I ever installed and found it to be useful and intuitive. Later versions not so much.
Oh my lord, I read the description and figured it was a pretty recent version because kernel version 5.4 is still supported but then you read out the packaging and I finally realized how damn old this is.
Yea 5 as in 2005
(1:58) IIRC it was called the alternate installer in Ubuntu, but it's currently called or used in the "mini" installer, while it's called or used in the "netinstall" text mode in Debian.
(3:02) I forgot that older versions of Debian and Ubuntu (alternate installer) didn't automatically populate the hostname with "debian" or "ubuntu" respectively!
That Arch Linux logo on the bottom right when he said Ubuntu was the best Linux distro. 😆
Excellent reference and video MJD!
An MJD Linux video? Yes, please!
Michael! Thank you for the videos you upload! Not only it's funny but it's enternaning and always very interesting stuff to look at!
true
These videos are awesome, and so are the computers. Great content.
Thank you!
@@MichaelMJD I really enjoy and love technology so that’s why I love your content!
I had one of these discs! 10.04 Lucid Lynx if i remember correctly. It was shipped to me from Netherlands. It was my first Linux, first international shipped package that i received and my first legal OS
oh man, that CD booklet gives me war flashbacks. When I was a kid I ordered an ubuntu disc and it arrived in the mail identical to yours. I was excited to try linux and I had installed it on our family pc. Our only pc. a full install. All our family Kodak Easyshare pictures and Windows XP overwritten. My mom cried.
You....ARE...L-U-C-K-Y.....you....are....NOT.....D-E-A-D
I dunno if it’s intentional, but that song at 8:10 so late 90s/early 00s. That chill out stuff was all over music stores back then.
Maybe try making a UA-cam poll with all the ideas you have and see which one gets the most votes. Or do you mind sharing the Google doc?
If you have tone ideas, please make more videos, it's definetely the best content on the internet. I'm currently have flares from IBS and your videos calms me more than anything and thank you for that.
Just wanted to say thanks for the Linux content. And it's awesome to hear you have lots of ideas!
I have a Mac Cube aquarium. I hope next year to finally buy a G4 Cube and it would look so cool to see the aquarium in operation & the Mac Cube running my older games.
I think this was my first (or one of the first) Ubuntu I used. I have very fond memory with it! It was easy to install, easy to use and I fell in love with GNOME 2.x back then. It was so straightforward, easy to use and fast environment. Also very aesthetically designed! Especially compared to various ugly skins that for some reason were very common back then. Thanks to that, Ubuntu 5.04 and 5.10 were my major OS for a while... For me it was a peak for Ubuntu - later switch to GNOME 3 and Unity broke it for me for some reason...
And also: COMPIZ and wobbly windows 😉
red hat ruins everything. ubuntu was forced to make unity because of red hat ruining gnome 3. and lets not get started on systemd, wayland, pipewire, flatpaks....
love to see linux content, would love it even more if you make more videos
This is a duraga1 type video and I’m here for it
Playing the "wait" music while solving Tetravex made me chuckle!
I wanted to see what would happen if you typed "Sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y"
Me too. Or even upgrade Linux kernel and even ubuntu as a whole on it
Several years back I was writing some extract/compress code that needed to work on a big endian processor (since I was adding it to a Wii homebrew app), and it was pretty darn convenient to compile and run a test app for that code on a G4.
Love that old ncurses installer, still use whenever possible for both Debian and Ubuntu. So simple
I remember seeing that CD on computer magazines back in the day!
Great day for some Michael MJD content!
Reminds me of when I installed Lubuntu on my iMac G5 PPC.
I always enjoy your retro videos. Thanks for sharing. I'm far from a seasoned Linux user but I was curious what would happen if you tried to "update" or "upgrade" that version of Ubuntu at the command line?
Stuff Ubuntu turn your G4 into a next-gen Amiga by installing MorphOS! Now that's a video I'd love to see! I mean the engineering behind the majority of the G4 era machines from Apple are based on Commodore's dying legacy!
great video Michael! awesome as always 💗🙂
Thank you!
I just thought of doing this (with Debian) like 2hrs ago on an iMac G4 I have in my basement and just now came across this video! I’m even more excited to try this now.
that Arch logo peeking in the corner, niiiice
That desktop reminds me of when I first discovered Linux when I was a kid only a few short years after this release.
"The signature MJD timelapse music" love it
Oh, I love Linux on PowerPC, and I love this particular Mac, so this’ll be great.
“Gnome” i just love the way it’s said
Even after seeing various retro-coverage videos of the G4 cube over the years I never even heard of or seen the power brick until now.
That 'alternate' installer is the installer I still use today, although I have now switched to what I think is a more sensible distribution than Ubuntu, namely Devuan. I had way too many issues with the graphical installer of ubuntu to ever want to use it again.
Cool!I remember the Cube...the school system I worked for had some. Are you able to install updates to a Linux system that dated?
I'm not sure about 5.04 PPC but on 8.04 x86_64 you can with a bit of work. I wouldn't be surprised if it was possible with this version, too.
@@masterkitty wait you can still run updates for 8.04? I figured those repositories would be decommissioned by now.
@@lejoshmont2093 the official repos that used to be for updating ubuntu 8.04 are down. you can add an archived repository though and that should get you access to the packages once again.
@@masterkitty ok that makes sense
I would be interested in seeing Yellow Dog Linux being attempted on the G4 cube.
Whatever you do, it's always fun to watch.
I'm in for watching a newly done video on the G5 towers and maybe some other stuff from years back. Well, basically anything pre-2017, which is when I started watching the channel.
Hi Michael! I've never used Linux on PPC, but I'm wondering - how far can you go with apt-get upgrade (and distro upgrade)?
I would imagine the official repos are no longer up. I guess you could theoretically take the Gentoo approach and compile everything yourself to update. You would probably land yourself in dependency hell pretty quick.
Lets all be grateful for the person who wrote the captions.
Man, I miss this period of Linux. Back then, it really felt like you could just start using it as a standard desktop OS, no fiddly configuration for high-resolution displays, no terminal trickery to try to get browser video decoding... Of course it can do so much more now, but I feel like it's all less well integrated somehow.
15 years ago I used linux with the basic vesa driver(didn’t know how to install Nvidia drivers) with 256 colors and 800x600 resolution. It worked and I was happy. Today I feel like I can’t use anything that isn’t HiDPI 120Hz. What I’m trying to say is that stuff gets easier when you have lower requirements.
@@klausschmidt982 Truth. Although I don't think it needs to be that way, I certainly find 2021 macOS less fiddly than 2001 Mac OS.
the best era of free install cd's they are the best!!
I would like to see a video of you trying to daily drive a PowerPC Mac on Linux (any Linux, as modern as you can get) and see how useable it is today for daily computing tasks. I think it would be an interesting experience.
The weird thing about installing OSes on computers where they don't belong is that... well, it might have a different installer, a different boot screen, but once it boots, it looks and feels kind of... normal. Ubuntu 5.04 on a G4 looks and feels exactly like Ubuntu 5.04 on a Wintel PC would feel. It just uses binaries compiled for a different architecture, and that's it. If you didn't show the machine it's running on, it could very well be a PC. The same goes for Windows on a Mac, Windows on a Raspberry Pi (yes, it is possible), or even macOS on a PC. Well, it might turn some heads if that was a laptop, but with an external monitor... who knows what it's plugged into.
There are some exceptions, though. MS-DOS on early clones that weren't 100% compatible could be markedly different to the regular PC version. Windows (up to 98 and NT4) for NEC PC-98 Japanese computers label the hard drive as A: and the floppy as B: once installed (and it doesn't run regular IBM-compatible MS-DOS binaries correctly! - although it does run normal Windows software just fine). There was Windows 2000 for PC-98, but it uses the more conventional C: letter on clean installs. MS-DOS for PC-98 is somewhat weird as well, not to mention it's all in Japanese.
Linux for _really_ old Macs, I'm talking 68k and Old World PPC (pre-iMac) ones, was also rather fascinating, as there was no way to boot it directly. You had to have at least a minimal Mac OS install to launch the bootloader program from it - so you were booting Linux from a Mac OS application! (with no way of going back without a reboot, though)
I'm sure there are other examples of such computer/OS combos that do really feel extremely weird, but these are those that just came to my head.
Man I want to install ubuntu again. I remember installing that CD a long ass time ago. I always had issues with other distros, but ubuntu worked best on my computer at the time.
I've Always Wanted one of These.. When I worked in Nashville a Apple Repo store had em but they weren't cheap in 2004 lol
Wow that is a sight to see! That's ancient Ubuntu!
Oh cool, that's the first Ubuntu version I ever tried and it was a bunch of those discs that were shipped to me.
Sweet video dude. Hoary/FC2 is around the time I started using Linux -- and in retrospect, I'm pretty sure 13 year old me abused the Shipit system.
Awesome video, Michael!
So glad I discovered Jeff Goldblum low key has a UA-cam channel
I wanna try this on my imac DV, would be a fun project
3:44 Nice timelapse music! Brought to you by MJD Productions!
You know, there is a modern PPC version of Debian (bullseye) you can install with MATE (to mimic GNOME)
(the signature MJD time lapse music)
nice.
i find your videos so realaxing... keep it up!
Wow! That's awesome! I have been able to boot 6 operating systems on my Macbook 2010 model, so you should be able to triple boot no problem!
Awesome video - there are LTS releases that can run on that machine from more recent years but this is a great content idea anyway.
I remember those free CD's, they included also some stickers of ubuntu
I have some of those Ubuntu CDs, it was quite cool. I guess these days you wouldn't need that when you can just grab a USB.
Haha. I love Ubuntu for PowerPC! I installed it on my iMac G5!
wow. Michael does such a good job that he only has 9 dislikes. Pure Quality.
0:45
that was an arch BTW
also as always great video!
Would totally watch an OpenOffice retrospect
A retrospective video of OpenOffice would be great
i remember ordering the ubuntu disc all the time, use it for a couple of weeks then switch back to windows
Try Zorn os lite. Its a modern linux distro designed for really old computers like this
Doesn't support PPC. There are other modern lightweight distros that do though.
@@bucklinspring 18.04 LTS is still supported under extended support, and it's the last Ubuntu version which can run on PPC.
9:18 THE WAY MY BRAIN SAID DEEZ NUTZ SO QUICK
7:40 …THAT’s why the logo! 😃
The GNOME build date is NOT in DD/MM/YY, it is in MM/DD/YY, because Ubuntu releases are released 1 month after GNOME releases. Except for 6.06, I guess. So for example, Ubuntu 21.10 came out 1 month after GNOME 41.
Didn't expect somebody in my own city (va beach) to be donating on this channel...
i remember i got my first ubuntu disc at a blockbuster - wish i still had it
i remember back then getting free ubuntu cds i miss that time
I’ve never seen this variant of theMac. 😮 I thought I saw them all.
My first laptop was an Apple PowerBook Pismo with a G3 (I think?) in it. I ran PPC Debian on it. Was a great machine.
Video idea: show every version of Ubuntu to the current. Maybe other OSs like the Windows 1.0 to 10 video.
micheal mjd: "$2.50 powermac g5
youtube: "10 second autism test"
Now you should try updating Ubuntu to latest version the G4 Cube can support...
Watched this video on my Macbook Air 2013 running Manjaro XFCE :)
I never knew that the old gnome looks like what xfce, or mate is now.
I started on Ubuntu 5.04(on a pc) in 2005 and I haven't had Windows installed on my computers since then.
Always wanted one of these
The little arch icon as he said linux war
What about a video on newer Ubuntu installations on this device?
I remember what a pain it was to install Debian on an iMac G3 way back in the day.
Now that you've installed Ubuntu on this G4 Cube, you truly have installed every Microsoft operating system under the sun
Technically these G4s are still usable today, for servers and stuff. Obviously you're not going to use it for normal usage, but you could very easily set up a web server on it for a home cloud or something
I think the latest Linux you can install on it is fedora 32... Would be fun to see how it works with modern day Linux
I won't start a Linux holy war.
I'll just point out that Yellow Dog was THE distro for Mac, hands down.
Is that a blender?