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Monthly Archives: July 2020

Older versions of MintPPC

Recently I went through my storage room in the attic and found an old G4 MDD with various versions of MintPPC on it. It was one of the machines I used to test and develop MintPPC on back in the days. If there is interest in say MintPPC 11, I can make a disk image […]

Posted byadminJuly 14, 2020July 14, 2020Posted inInstallation8 Comments on Older versions of MintPPC

isight-firmware-tools

Today I built isight-firmware-tools for ppc64 and added it to the 64-bits repository. Apple Built-in iSight requires firmware that can be extracted from the Mac OS X USBVideo driver. This package provides tools for extracting the firmware from the driver and installing udev rules and tools to automatically load the firmware when needed. I tested […]

Posted byadminJuly 9, 2020July 9, 2020Posted inInstallationLeave a comment on isight-firmware-tools

MintPPC Live

I have got a version of MintPPC32 that runs as a live USB stick! Simply dd the image onto a stick and boot from the stick right into MintPPC. This is a USB image with persistent storage! I have never achieved something like this before. I will update soon.

Posted byadminJuly 6, 2020July 6, 2020Posted inInstallation14 Comments on MintPPC Live

MintPPC installable again

Just a small update: MintPPC can be installed again. Please read the installation instructions.

Posted byadminJuly 6, 2020Posted inInstallation85 Comments on MintPPC installable again

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