G.A.P. Part II – A Brief Review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2 (macppc)

What follows is a rant/review of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2. It’s the second part of the “Golden Apple Project” article series, which tells the tale of my quest to transform a formerly unused Apple PowerMac G4 (450Mhz, AGP Video) into something more useful than an unused OS 9 machine. After a somewhat discouraging attempt at […]

G.A.P. – The Golden Apple Project – Part I

The other day I acquired a hardly used PowerMac G4 from someone who was going to throw it out. Imagine that? It’s got a 450Mhz PPC CPU, 256MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, and AGP video. Certainly this nice little machine can be used for something… But what? Though I could probably get away […]

Using a 30G iPod Video With Linux

At first I thought this would be a simple thing to do. After all, linux has great FAT32 filesystem support right? All I would need to do is format my iPod for windows and then everything would be great… right? Then I remembered that I don’t have windows running on any of my machines! Well […]