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I've been asked to keep some stuff for a friend who's moving into a new house,including an old Apple iMac G5 that is destined to end up in the bin.
Produced from 2004 to 2006, the iMac G5 is the final iMac to use a PowerPC processor. The PowerPC architecture has since become niche in the desktop market, although it still retains significant popularity in the embedded and high-performance markets.
Due to Apple's transition to Intel processors in 2006, the most recent release of Mac OS that maintains compatiblity with the iMac G5 is 2007's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Indeed, this is what my friend's machine is running.
Screen serial terminal. Although fundamentally outdated, I can't help but feel a little uneasy aboutdiscarding a perfectly working and relatively modern computer. The iMac G5'sLCD panel, for example, is excellent and vastly superior to many of today's low-budget screens, at least to my eyes. Moreover, as clearly shown by what MorphOS can achieve on even older Mac Mini G4 models (including playing 720pHTML5 video!), the hardware of the iMac G5 is definitely capable of supporting basic daily usage.
However, I've had little luck in my attempts to breathe new life into this machine. The main reason is the lack of a modern browser to explore the web oftoday, which is vastly more complex and computationally expensive than that of 2005. My initial goal was to get the iMac to stream HTML5 video, which I find to be a good general indicator of a machine's compatibility with modern times. So far I've tried what follows, without success.
TenFourFoxThis guide highlights 5 ways to kill non-responsive Linux programs and applications, including kill, xkill, top, system monitor and pkill 2007-05-03 Frozen apps happen to the best of us for reasons we don't always understand, and a Mac application can just suddenly become unresponsive.
There is a simple tool called xkill that allows users to close an unresponsive GUI window. It is possible since, in Linux, the title window of an application is separate from the application itself. Simply go to your Linux terminal emulator and type in xkill.
WiXkill lays inside system tray (a small area generaly located in the bottom left side of you screen, inside your taskbar). By right clicking WiXkill icon, you open the WiXkill popup menu. Here is a sample af the 'About' menu command result.
Xkill is a utility used for force-quitting GUI apps. It is handy when some app isn't responding or is causing your system to work abnormally. Xkill - kill a client by its X resource. Xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs.
Xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs that have displayed undesired windows on a user's screen. If no resource identifier is given with -id, xkill will display a special cursor as a prompt for the user to select a window to be killed. If a pointer button is pressed over a non-root window.

TenFourFox is a distribution ofMozilla's Firefox browser compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and optimizedfor the G3, G4 and G5 processor families.
Downloading it and running it is quick and easy, no more complicated than installing Firefox on a modern Mac OS computer. Everything seems to work, although speed is quite often an issue. YouTube video, even at 360p, is stuttery to the point of being unwatchable.
LubuntuLubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution based on the more famous Ubuntu. It is one of a dwindling number of Linux distributions that still releases images and maintains packages for the PowerPC architecture.
Booting Lubuntu from the live .ISO image was simply a matter of dding the image onto a USB stick, launching the Open Firmware bootloader (by pressing CMD+OPT+o+f during the iMac's boot sequence) and entering command boot usb1/disk@1:2,yaboot.

Once booted, Lubuntu appears reasonably fast. However, navigating to YouTube using Firefox resulted in the browser crashing irreparably, having to be terminated using xkill or any other variant of kill -SIGKILL.
MorphOS

I've been asked to keep some stuff for a friend who's moving into a new house,including an old Apple iMac G5 that is destined to end up in the bin.
Produced from 2004 to 2006, the iMac G5 is the final iMac to use a PowerPC processor. The PowerPC architecture has since become niche in the desktop market, although it still retains significant popularity in the embedded and high-performance markets.
Due to Apple's transition to Intel processors in 2006, the most recent release of Mac OS that maintains compatiblity with the iMac G5 is 2007's Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Indeed, this is what my friend's machine is running.
Screen serial terminal. Although fundamentally outdated, I can't help but feel a little uneasy aboutdiscarding a perfectly working and relatively modern computer. The iMac G5'sLCD panel, for example, is excellent and vastly superior to many of today's low-budget screens, at least to my eyes. Moreover, as clearly shown by what MorphOS can achieve on even older Mac Mini G4 models (including playing 720pHTML5 video!), the hardware of the iMac G5 is definitely capable of supporting basic daily usage.
However, I've had little luck in my attempts to breathe new life into this machine. The main reason is the lack of a modern browser to explore the web oftoday, which is vastly more complex and computationally expensive than that of 2005. My initial goal was to get the iMac to stream HTML5 video, which I find to be a good general indicator of a machine's compatibility with modern times. So far I've tried what follows, without success.
TenFourFoxThis guide highlights 5 ways to kill non-responsive Linux programs and applications, including kill, xkill, top, system monitor and pkill 2007-05-03 Frozen apps happen to the best of us for reasons we don't always understand, and a Mac application can just suddenly become unresponsive.
There is a simple tool called xkill that allows users to close an unresponsive GUI window. It is possible since, in Linux, the title window of an application is separate from the application itself. Simply go to your Linux terminal emulator and type in xkill.
WiXkill lays inside system tray (a small area generaly located in the bottom left side of you screen, inside your taskbar). By right clicking WiXkill icon, you open the WiXkill popup menu. Here is a sample af the 'About' menu command result.
Xkill is a utility used for force-quitting GUI apps. It is handy when some app isn't responding or is causing your system to work abnormally. Xkill - kill a client by its X resource. Xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs.
Xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs that have displayed undesired windows on a user's screen. If no resource identifier is given with -id, xkill will display a special cursor as a prompt for the user to select a window to be killed. If a pointer button is pressed over a non-root window.
TenFourFox is a distribution ofMozilla's Firefox browser compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and optimizedfor the G3, G4 and G5 processor families.
Downloading it and running it is quick and easy, no more complicated than installing Firefox on a modern Mac OS computer. Everything seems to work, although speed is quite often an issue. YouTube video, even at 360p, is stuttery to the point of being unwatchable.
LubuntuLubuntu is a lightweight Linux distribution based on the more famous Ubuntu. It is one of a dwindling number of Linux distributions that still releases images and maintains packages for the PowerPC architecture.
Booting Lubuntu from the live .ISO image was simply a matter of dding the image onto a USB stick, launching the Open Firmware bootloader (by pressing CMD+OPT+o+f during the iMac's boot sequence) and entering command boot usb1/disk@1:2,yaboot.
Once booted, Lubuntu appears reasonably fast. However, navigating to YouTube using Firefox resulted in the browser crashing irreparably, having to be terminated using xkill or any other variant of kill -SIGKILL.
MorphOSMorphOS is a proprietary operative system forthe Amiga and other PowerPC-based personal computers. MorphOS 2.4 added support for Apple's Mac Mini G4 in 2009 while MorphOS 3.2 added support for Apple's PowerMac G5 in 2013. MorphOS' OWB browser, although last updated in 2014 and seemingly discontinued, is based on the ubiquitous WebKit rendering engine and seems to support many of the features of today's web.
Unfortunately, I could not get MorphOS to boot. I tried booting into it usingboth a CD and a USB stick as per the official guides but none of these worked. The former resulted in a black screen that left me wondering whether I had stumbled into a boot issue or merely a graphical one. The latter resulted in the boot error unrecognised Client Program format, for which I was unable to find a solution.
ConclusionXkill For Mac OsI am sure that each of these three alternatives could do with spending more time tweaking and tuning the small details. I am satisfied with the amount of hours I have put on this weekend project, however, and I do not plan on putting more on it. I am a little saddened that the pace and direction of technological change make reviving such a recent machine (in human scale) so counter economical. I wonder where we are heading. How many perfectly functional machines are we throwing away? How much needless waste are we producing?
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