Is there life on the PowerMac G5?

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d1m1tr12012-09-06 22:08:21

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d1m1tr1, 2012-09-06 22:08:21

Good day.
I would like to know from the experts whether full-fledged work on this machine is possible (meaning the complete replacement of a stationary PC), and what concessions on my part will this be fraught with?
Priority in using the native OS (MacOS X 10.3.9), if its capabilities are limited, moving to GNU/Linux.

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vaboretti, 2012-09-06
@vaboretti

No

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Vovanys, 2012-09-06
@Vovanys

A bit old already, but you can change the stuffing of the system unit to pieces of iron from an ordinary PC and put a hackintosh there)

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MikhailEdoshin, 2012-09-06
@MikhailEdoshin

What are you going to do? So it's a good car. The system can be newer, it will pull.

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voooz, 2012-09-06
@voooz

G5 like processors> 1 gigahertz, for comfortable work (and development) MacOS 10.5.8 will be fine, if there are no special requirements for software, then everything will fly on 10.4.11.
10.4.11 has Adobe CS3 (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash), Coda and more.
The problem is Java software, most need java from 10.6.x.

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Georgy Khromchenko, 2012-09-07
@Mox

It's possible, but it's better not 10.3.9, but 10.5.x
Java will not have the latest version, it will be Java5, maybe Java6 (you need to look)
Servelat seems to have been for OS X, but maybe only under Intel
Comfort of work depends on the amount of RAM.
And I also think you can take some kind of poppy mini Core 2 Duo, it will not be slower :)

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Oleg Karnaukhov, 2012-09-07
@BupycNet

Try Linux, I think almost any OpenSource software will start. And so I don’t know how everything will work, it’s already necessary to try.

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Joke, 2012-09-07
@gok

Perhaps all of the above, except maybe silverlight. And so, the machine is quite powerful (unless it's a junior single-processor configuration), quiet and beautiful. The older one was even liquid-cooled.