Looking for a better Linux distro for my Mac

[jacatone]

I have a Powerbook G4 PPC running Lubuntu 12.04. Newer versions of Lubuntu don't work. Does anyone know of a linux distro that's more up to date that'll work on this laptop? Thanks.

[michaelk]

Have you tried debian?
Have a look at distrowatch to see what distributions are available for the PPC.

[jacatone]

Updates for Debian PPC ended a long time ago.

[johnkingx]

ubuntu or mint

[root.veg]

Hi, I'm super late replying to this (haven't logged in in nearly 8 years!) but this stuck out for me.

You'll find Debian PPC is definitely still alive and officially supported:

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/...werpc/iso-dvd/

In fact I changed to Debian PPC after mainstream Ubuntu PPC support ended:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads

Similarly MintPPC exists, but doesn't look very official:

http://mintppc.org/

[Demanding Truth]

An of the top thought on this problem.. Maybe you need to totally erase the mac hard drive for anything to install on it..?
Apple and windows sometimes have nasty things in them that prevent competition installs at the start...

You erase a hard drive by running it in a regular notebook using 'DBAN autonuke'.. Pull the hard drive, insert it into a pc notebook, run 'DBAN's autonuke' (without any external media devices in the USB slots), put it back into the mac, and try to install something that works in an apple..

[Demanding Truth]

Updates for Debian PPC ended a long time ago.

We don't need updates.. The OS's work fine without updates.. Today's updates are a criminal scam to add malware to the OS... So what if the updates have stopped on an OS.. It still works... When the warranty on your car has stopped, does that mean your car died..? When the expiry date has hit your bottle of pills, does that mean they've suddenly turned into poison..?

[Steve R Jones]

Updates for Debian PPC ended a long time ago.

This statement was made -> 10-27-2014, 07:18 PM by someone with THREE posts. Maybe this post isn't newsworthy?!?!?

[Demanding Truth]

Greetings Mr. Jones..

Maybe everything is newsworthy when it comes to solving old and new problems, even stuff from ten years ago, and even stuff from a thousand years ago, like how today's expensive horrid cough-syrups don't work with a covid cough, but the thousand year old peppermint and honey cough syrup tea remedy sure does.. I had covid three times, very Not fun!.. Hooray for peppermint tea!... Somewhere some people are still experiencing all those old problems, especially us millions of fading old folks who don't want anything to do with the crazy devolving drug-damaged falling-apart enraged new-school modern-world.. The modern world feels like it's hell... We like the honest peaceful things like they were way back in the late 1900's, when life was real, honest, and healthy... I have the thread OP's same Apple computer problem and question.. I have ten retired free working Apple computers that need an operating system.. I haven't found a Mac install ISO disk at garage sales yet.. I wager most people just toss them in the garbage, oh poop and darn!... I use Apple computers only for repairing and resetting iPhones and mp3 players with iTunes, and processing music into iPhones and mp3 players.. I have only one old windows OS notebook with iTunes working for processing mp3 players.. I hate windows.. Running a windows OS is like 'stirring a plugged latrine with your bare hand'... I'd like to find an old Mac OS ISO that isn't too scratched-up, that actually works with iTunes in these rotten old apples.. Is there one that's free, that isn't infested with today's crazy terrorist barbaric criminal malware..? Me and the thread's old-person OP sure would like to find a free one that works... We haven't given up yet.. We're still alive, our ears still work, and we still like good music, and there's probably about 200,000 others who also want the same...

Another thing: I have 150 retired free cellphones, mostly iPhones, but they are PW locked.. Does anyone know how to unlock an iPhone yet..?