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Which Distro should i choose? {imac g4 comfy edition}


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>hardmode 128MB of RAM edition

I wanted mint so i can play VLC yify ancient cartoons as a secondary machine on my desk

i need a distro that can play video
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>>55099784
Its a pentium 4 chip & can be upgraded to 2GB of ram
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Windows 10 :^)
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>>55099811
bullshit. PowerPC or die back then.
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Running vlc alone will us too much ram.
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>>55099784
>>>/fglt/
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Puppy Linux and try compiling?
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>>55099784
Debian

Runs mpv fine on my iMac G3
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>>55099784
slackware
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OpenBSD

You should upgrade the RAM and use Tiger though
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>>55099784
OS 9 n QickTime
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>>55099784
OS9 for the comfy or some ultra lightweight distro for the loonix.
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>>55099784
Any OS X before Leopard...
fucking retards making everything so complicated
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>>55103516
>running OSX on 128mb
I should learn to make webms just so i can show you how long it takes my g4 tower to boot up tiger with 128.
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>>55103533
Just use a basic fucking install with networking and a media player of your choice. Theres also Panther and Jaguar. I guess Mac OS 9 won't support your fancy codecs?
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>>55103570
I'm a totally different anon than OP is. I just sort of collect old mac shit.
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>>55103533
Also, use sleep, don't power them off completely if you can't wait them to boot.
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>>55103580
I have a iMac G3, eMac G4, two PowerMac G4, single and dual processor variants and a G5 which guts are in a box right now.
Don't start me on classic Macintoshes...
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>>55099784
Poo in the loo Pajeet.
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>>55099944
Double dubs of death have spoken!
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>>55103606
Nice. All i have is a dual 450 GBE tower and a 550mhz GBE TiBook.

I have one of these displays (pic related), but its scratched to shit (screen and case unfortunately).

I kind of want a G4 iMac but they are expensive as fuck for how old they are and i want one of the big screen ones.
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>>55103702
>they are expensive as fuck for how old they are
Welcome to the world of collecting Apple hardware
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>>55103729
I know. You can get plastic macbooks that will run sierra for cheaper than some older models. Especially that fucking sexy clamshell iBook.
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>>55103729
>Welcome to the world of eating shit from your hands

Fixed.
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>>55099784
OpenELEC (kodi built in) + install exodus.
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>>55099784
Step 1.
Sell them to some macmoron who will pay you 2016 prices for 2 decade old hardware.

Step 2.
Build beastly computer with the cash.
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>>55103688
full house
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>>55099784
OS X Tiger with Coreplayer is your best bet if you want barely acceptable h.264 playback. Linux isn't great since you won't get proper GPU support, since nvidia only released full linux drivers for x86.
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>>55103856
cool story bro
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>>55099784
maybe dig out an old version of crunchbang, I think it only used like 100 mb, though I may be wrong
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>>55099821
>trying to copy a tiling window manager
oh winbabies, never change.
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