Installing Ubuntu Linux on a Power Mac G4 Cube!

It's about time for some more Mac-focused content! Today we're going to try and install Ubuntu Linux 5.04 on my G4 Cube.

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[Aeduo]

This has to be the smoothest OS install video with the least problems. Seemed to be basically no troubles at all, unless a lot was edited out.

[berserker]

I just love watching Linux bring life back into old computers

2000s-era Apple aesthetic was peak

[NatetheAceOfficial]

ShipIt was so much fun. Always made sure to get my new release discs as soon as they were available. I even asked for a bunch of them to show off at a school tech fair in HS. They sent me about 20 discs, many GNOME discs, but a handful of Kubuntu discs as well as a big pack of stickers. It was so cool of them to support my excitement. I handed out a bunch that day, and even did install demos on my Dell Inspiron. The sound didn't work and the Wi-Fi was borked, but I was happy to show anyone willing to sit and talk about it.

[defconzero]

These computers are so cool, really an evolution of Jobs' NEXTcube, even down to the unix-based OS with macOS X

[amartufo]

As someone who's using the Linux from 2010 as a full Linux distro user, I'm amazed to see old Ubuntu Linux on older computers. Great video.

[Eyetrauma]

IMO goes to show how the value of a thing can change over time even though the thing itself remains constant: you were talking about how you'd gotten that G5 tower for $2.50, just recently I had a *brutal* haggling session with a guy over a Windtunnel G4, a computer I can distinctly remember being considered e-waste not too long ago.
I also remember people snapping up computers like the G4/G5 to use 'as a cheap Linux box, ' much as you're doing in this video, when nowadays you'd be immensely better served by a simple SBC/Pi. Wild.

[rhcp]

I ran Ubuntu (or Debian) on one of these as a headless torrent client as a kid, and the only thing that was more difficult and harder to get software for was my OG Xbox (which ran Xebian).

The PowerPC architecture didn't have many updated repos to install and update packages, but I managed to get the Xbox to run a Subsonic server to stream music that the Power Mac G4 Cube had downloaded to my phone.

It essentially worked like Google Play Music used to with a similar web interface, except it streamed lossless or encoded it down to whatever I wanted on the fly. Both were so much fun to get up and running, and I loved hearing the sound of the old hard drives on both of them start spinning and piping the music from the Cube to the Xbox and then finally to my phone/computer

[kbhasi]

(1:58) IIRC it was called the alternate installer in Ubuntu, but it's currently called or used in the "mini" installer, while it's called or used in the "netinstall" text mode in Debian.
(3:02) I forgot that older versions of Debian and Ubuntu (alternate installer) didn't automatically populate the hostname with "debian" or "ubuntu" respectively!

[BilisNegra]

Quite surprisingly, there have been Power PC Ubuntu versions up to 16.04 in early 2019! Haven't tried to install any though, it's the kind of thing I'd like to do but never actually get to.

[moonrock]

I think this version of Ubuntu was the first distro of Linux I ever installed and found it to be useful and intuitive. Later versions not so much.

[Speedyyou]

Michael! Thank you for the videos you upload! Not only it's funny but it's enternaning and always very interesting stuff to look at!

[dreammfyre]

I’d love to mod one of these into something modern. It’s still a pretty amazing look.

[trexmike]

That's a really beautiful computer! Wish i had one.

[UltraPoyoColt]

These videos are awesome, and so are the computers. Great content.

[Evolze]

That Arch Linux logo on the bottom right when he said Ubuntu was the best Linux distro. 😆

Excellent reference and video MJD!

[iodreamify]

Just wanted to say thanks for the Linux content. And it's awesome to hear you have lots of ideas!

[dreammfyre]

I dunno if it’s intentional, but that song at 8:10 so late 90s/early 00s. That chill out stuff was all over music stores back then.

[frankzappa]

This is a duraga1 type video and I’m here for it

[milorad]

If you have tone ideas, please make more videos, it's definetely the best content on the internet. I'm currently have flares from IBS and your videos calms me more than anything and thank you for that.

[Sugar]

Love that old ncurses installer, still use whenever possible for both Debian and Ubuntu. So simple