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Hey,
I have an old Power Mac g5 gathering dust at home, and I was asking myself:
"What can I do with this old man ?"
I first thought of just taking the case, but it's not optimal to build a PC :P
It is also too much power consuming to make it a sever.
Do you have any idea ?
Thanks !

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Years and years ago when I had one and Apple had stopped supporting - I got a copy of Linux and installed it and ran a Minecraft server for a while on it.

[–] Darkpepito_tux 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, not many linux distros support PowerPC and Minecraft is now way to heavy for this old hardware...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah that figures especially on the latter. It has been a few years since I tinkered with it.

[–] SmoothIsFast 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks Microsoft