One Step Closer To Linus

Well, at least Adinoto is brave enough to lend me his precious iMac G4 with 17 inch TFT. Thank you very much bro!

Following Linus' example, of course my first task is to "purify" this box by installing Debian Sarge on it. Piece of cake. Then X11 follows. Adinoto also gave me a good link to appropriate X11 config. He's good. I'm sure he can also easily repeat this Debianizing process himself.

andika@macnoto:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : 7455, altivec supported
clock           : 1249MHz
revision        : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303)
bogomips        : 1245.18
machine         : PowerMac6,1
motherboard     : PowerMac6,1 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as     : 287 (Unknown Intrepid-based)
pmac flags      : 00000000
L2 cache        : 256K unified
memory          : 512MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
andika@macnoto:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        515368     404784     110584          0      18352     252524
-/+ buffers/cache:     133908     381460
Swap:      1509100          0    1509100
andika@macnoto:~$ dmesg|head
Total memory = 512MB; using 1024kB for hash table (at c0300000)
Linux version 2.6.8-powerpc (luther@pegasos) (version gcc 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)) 
#1 Thu Feb 24 14:15:19 CET 2005
Found UniNorth memory controller & host bridge, revision: 210
Mapped at 0xfde6e000
Found a Intrepid mac-io controller, rev: 0, mapped at 0xfddee000
Processor NAP mode on idle enabled.
PowerMac motherboard: Unknown Intrepid-based
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf0000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf2000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0
Found UniNorth PCI host bridge at 0xf4000000. Firmware bus number: 0->0

I won't tell you boring story about how I install Gnome, Firefox, kernel source, and so on. Maybe if I found something interesting enough, I will let you know. Again, thank you very much, Adi. I'm convinced now that iMac is really good :p