Hi, On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, PhiLLip Pi wrote:
> Server? Workstation? Old school text stuff? Just curious. I am trying to > see what I can use my slow PowerBook G4 with 512 MB of RAM to do. As a rule of thumb, you can do probably anything which doesn't involve heavy web browsing, or very graphics heavy stuff. :) The fun-killer apps these days are the browsers. But low traffic servers, anything console/text mode, a lightweight desktop GUI, IRC chat, e-mails, will work just fine. Of course you can also run browsers and heavy apps on it, but you will need to have a stretch of patience for sure. :) So that's not very rewarding usually. So think about more or less what you can also use a Raspberry Pi 1 for (minus mediacenter, because the RPi has hardware accelerators for that, which the PowerBook lacks), but it's waaaaay cooler, and portable with a battery, and a bit faster with a lot faster storage I/O. ;) Charlie (Ps: I don't run Debian PPC on my PowerBook, but run it on similar class hardware.)
