[Cialug] Lightweight linux for video on imac g4

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Nicolai <nicolai-cialug at chocolatine.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 06:42:25PM -0500, Mathew Phillips wrote:
> > I recently acquired an imac g4.
> >
> > 1 ghz ppc
> > 512 mb RAM
> > dvd drive
> > 17" screen
> >
> > It's not really powerful enough to run the newer versions of Ubuntu. I
> > installed 10.10 on it this morning and I'm getting 80-90% cpu usage just
> for
> > xorg with no apps running.
>
> Wow, is that normal?  That doesn't sound right to me at all; even on a
> 600MHz laptop of mine running OpenBSD, CPU usage is far below what you
> report when running Xorg and Firefox.  And OpenBSD isn't known for speed.
> It sounds like a bunch of unnecessary and/or bloated programs are running.
>
> It would be helpful if you could do a ps aux (or ps elf on Linux?) and
> put the output on a webpage somewhere for easy reading.
>
>
I strongly suspect that it's not normal but that some program or driver has
gone haywire. Unfortunately, PPC is not an officially maintained port of
Ubuntu.

Alas, I would not even suggest xubuntu. Recent demonstrations show xubuntu
using more system resources than Ubuntu does.

I'd look for a 2d only environment to get started with. YDL is the way to go
(as I understand it) and don't sweat the PS3 stuff, it's still PPC
architecture.

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