SHAOS » powermac https://shaos.net/blog { Personal Blog of Shaos } Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 New PowerMac G4 Dual as Linux Server https://shaos.net/blog/2010/11/new-powermac-g4-dual-as-linux-server.html https://shaos.net/blog/2010/11/new-powermac-g4-dual-as-linux-server.html#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:09:29 +0000 http://shaos.net/blog/?p=133 PowerMac G4 dual

PowerMac G4 dual 1.25 GHz MDD

My “new” home server/router: PowerMac G4 Dual 1.25 GHz MDD ($400 with monitor) with Debain/GNU Linux 5.0. It has 123 days uptime already!

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P.S. Electric power stability is provided by APC Back-UPS ES 750 that may keep the server working without electricity for more than 40 minutes!

P.P.S. Last “north-easter” poweroutage proved that my system’s up time without electricity is 75 minutes!!!

]]> https://shaos.net/blog/2009/07/powermac-g4-as-linux-server.html/feed 1 Power Mac G3 for 10 bucks! https://shaos.net/blog/2009/06/power-mac-g3-for-10-bucks.html https://shaos.net/blog/2009/06/power-mac-g3-for-10-bucks.html#comments Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:47:00 +0000 http://shaos.net/blog4/?p=34 Recently I bought Power Mac G3 (300MHz, 64MB RAM, Ethernet, CD-ROM and no HDD) for $9.99 (plus shipping $32.50):

To make it working I added CompactFlash 2GB (around $10) and CompactFlash-to-IDE adapter (around $5):

Adapter has female IDE connector to allow connection direcrly to motherboard. Also I put new battery ($5) there:

Then I installed Debian Linux on it and got working 300MHz PowerPC G3 system for below than $70. I think it’s pretty cheap ;)

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As we can see vectorized memcpy on PowerPC G4 1.67 GHz almost twice as fast as Celeron 2.7 GHz (which is sometimes similar to speed of vectorized memcpy on PowerPC G4 400 MHz). Also we see that Mac OS X has vectorized memcpy by default. See source code of this test: files/test_g4.c (2.5K)

]]> https://shaos.net/blog/2008/04/vectorized-memcpy.html/feed 0 Some vectorization for my PowerMac G4 https://shaos.net/blog/2008/04/some-vectorization-for-my-powermac-g4.html https://shaos.net/blog/2008/04/some-vectorization-for-my-powermac-g4.html#comments Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:19:00 +0000 http://shaos.net/blog4/?p=16 Another test of libfreevec-1.0.3 under the same Debian 4.0 “etch” as at previous time, but now on my PowerMac G4 400 MHz:





Archive with original data files: files/g4_400_tests_080426.zip

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Screenshot from MacOS X running on my 15″ PowerBook G4:

It says “Bus Speed: 167 MHz”. Is it correct? I thought it should be 333 MHz…

P.S. According to specification it’s correct…

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I’ve just installed Debian 4.0r3 from “Businesscard-CD” (computer was delivered with MacOS 9.2 onboard). Probably I will do some upgrades as second Ethernet interface, additional memory and new battery for clock. I plan to use it as router and home web-server and may be as node for my “homebrew” distributed computing network…

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