(G4 cube is placed on table)
- So it's been a while
since you've seen this computer on the channel, hasn't it?
In fact, I bet that most of you watching
have never seen this computer on this channel before.
Hello everybody and welcome back to another video.
Now, in today's episode,
yes, we're gonna be diving in to my Power Mac G4 Cube,
my very first Apple computer.
In fact, one of the very first machines
I've ever featured on this channel
and we're gonna be taking a look at it today,
not to install a copy of Mac OS X,
but instead to the checkout this copy
of Ubuntu Linux version 5.04 for PowerPC,
ah, yes, Ubuntu Linux for Human Beings,
the best type of Linux out there, am I right?
And yes, let's not start a flame war
for all the Linux users in the comments.
Just a joke guys, we can have some fun, right?
Yes, of course, Ubuntu Linux,
this right here is one of the official Canonical ShipIt CDs
back when they allowed you to order free installation media,
they would just mail to your mailbox for completely free
and I always found these discs fascinating
and I really wanted to collect all of them
and I had casually mentioned that in a video
a while back on this channel
and then I got contacted by David out in Virginia Beach
who offered to donate me
a plethora of Microsoft Beta software
and some of these official Canonical ShipIt CDs.
So yeah, we're gonna be having some Ubuntu Linux,
PowerPC, G4, Macintosh fun today.
Of course, to power up this thing,
we're going to need this guy right here,
the beautiful fricking large power adapter
that Apple never included in any of the advertisements
or marketing material for the G4 Cube
because of course, it's a fricking large power adapter,
but yes, I have one thankfully,
so we can power this thing up
and without any further ado,
let's get this all set up and check this out.
Now, this installer I know is not going to be graphical.
Yeah, we're gonna get that,
well, it's now known as the alternate installer,
but this was the original installer here.
So we'll go through here, English US.
Now, it's gonna find all of our modules here.
Now it will, it should at least detect the AirPort Card.
We're not gonna bother with network set up right now,
we can just deal with that
once we get into the operating system.
But yeah, Linux on a Mac
is something I've not done a whole lot.
I think the last time I did this
or a video like this on the channel
was with my G5 towers.
I've got two of them, believe it or not.
One of them I found it at a thrift store for $2.50.
Yeah, that beats the $5 98 PC. $2.50 for a G5 tower.
It was actually $5, but it was half off.
Yeah, that was a find from years ago.
I honestly should like redo some of those videos
'cause those videos are like super old,
but yeah, here it is.
Multiple network interfaces,
so we've got eth0 and eth1.
So yeah, AirPort wireless
and then this right here is I assume the ethernet adapter.
Enter the primary host name.
We're gonna call this UbuntuOnaMac.
Now, just to keep things simple,
we're going to erase the entire disc here.
I have made a backup.
We could definitely try triple booting this thing.
In fact, maybe I have already tried
to triple boot this thing
and it just, we experienced a lot of issues,
so I'm just trying to keep things simple for now.
Yeah, we'll come back to triple booting later on,
but for now, we're just gonna keep things simple,
erase the entire disc and we'll install Ubuntu on that.
So it's gonna compute those new partitions.
Warning, this will destroy all data on any partitions.
So yeah, it sounds good.
Yes and there we go.
(the signature MJD timelapse music)
And of course we have to put in a new name
for our user accounts.
So we're gonna go with Michael, that's fine.
Enter a password, we're gonna go with nothing.
You seem to have entered nothing for the password.
Oh, we have to enter a password, okay.
Enter full name, username, password.
We'll just do G4. A really insecure password
especially since I've told you,
but it's fine for this video
and here it's going to eject the CD-ROM.
So the DVD drive in here is a little bit finicky
in that it doesn't object the disc entirely,
but we got it out there.
First stage of the installation process is complete.
Your computer will now reboot and install more packages.
Make sure to remove installation media, okay.
(the signature MJD timelapse music)
All right, everybody,
so here we are logged in to Ubuntu 5.04 on the G4 Cube
for the very first time.
Definitely a sight to see.
Here's the applications menu
which just like in, I believe 4.10,
we don't have the Ubuntu logo up here.
We have the GNOME logo instead.
We can go to about GNOME.
So this is GNOME Desktop version 2.10.0,
Build Date: 03/072005.
It's probably written in day, month, year.
That would be my guess, so yeah, there you go.
But we've got sound working,
now the big question is do we have internet working?
Can we get on the network?
Let's find out, so we're gonna launch our web browser here,
which is Firefox.
It's gonna be an old version of Firefox.
I'll be curious to see what it is.
So let's go to help and about here.
Yeah, version 1.0.2,
this was back when it was just copyrighted to contributors,
not even the Mozilla Foundation.
Okay, well, it's found a wireless
and an ethernet connection and a modem.
It's all not configured,
so let's change it to, oh yeah,
this is because we didn't configure it during setup.
So we're gonna say, yes it is configured, DHCP, it's active.
So let's see if we can get on the network.
Yep, it's working guys
and yeah, the problems will persist
on Google Search result pages for instance,
because it loads the mobile site.
This is again very common.
I've mentioned this many times
on this channel for older browsers.
One thing we can do though, is go to The Old Net, of course,
wouldn't be an old computer video
without mentioning The Old Net at least once.
So yeah, I've done a couple of videos on The Old Net.
Super awesome stuff, guys.
I mean, Richard who runs this has put so much work into this
and it's just a really awesome project, you know what?
Let's browse, this came out in 2005.
So let's change our date here to 2005.
We're gonna go to ubuntu.com,
so this right here is what you would see
if you went to ubuntu.com in 2005.
So I guarantee you that some, I mean, who knows,
maybe somebody was using this exact,
I mean, well, not this exact copy that I have here,
but this version of Ubuntu on a G4 Cube in 2005
and they went to ubuntu.com.
It's just stuff like that
that I think about that just really, I don't know,
like makes a connection and it's like, wow,
like we're just kind of re-experiencing that
and someone could have actually been doing
what we're doing right now back 15 years ago
or 16 years ago now.
Before we end off the video though,
let's do a couple more things.
Let's play some games, why not?
Can play, oh, Tetravex, totally gonna play Tetravex.
So let's see if I can solve this here.
(the signature MJD timelapse music)
We got a ton of options here for the 6 on the top,
but that's the only one with a 5 on the right
and then it's gonna be, yep, that's it.
So there you go, Tetravex.
There was a version of Tetravex
in one of the Microsoft Entertainment Packs
which I covered years ago on this channel.
Gosh, what else you wanna do?
OpenOffice, yeah, let's open up OpenOffice.
Of course, it's so interesting to me
because in these laid back OS installation videos,
I get so many ideas.
Like now I'm thinking like I could do
a retrospective on OpenOffice or even Tetravex.
I mean, I don't know if anyone would watch that,
but yeah, we could do a retrospective on that.
I get just so many ideas, man,
which I have no shortage of ideas which is really great.
I mean, I think I've mentioned this before,
but I have a Google Doc that is like eight pages long
just with a ton of ideas that keeps getting added to.
Like I don't think I'm ever gonna get through all of them,
which is great because for my entire YouTube career,
I'll always be able to refer back to that.
Let's just say "Michael MJD's awesome G4 Cube
running Ubuntu 5.04 for PowerPC."
PowerPC is one word like that.
Okay, so we'll save that.
And yeah, the keyboard shortcuts may confuse Mac users
because it maps to a Windows like layout,
so it's no longer Command + S, it's Control + S.
So yeah, so we'll save
this to, yeah, we'll save to the desktop, why not?
And yeah, guys,
I think that's gonna really wrap it up for today.
Just a nice laid back install of Ubuntu 5.04 here
on the Power Mac G4 Cube.
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(outro music)