![]() really a success story for this Imac, I'm still pinching myself, a great time killer project LOL, my wife thinks I'm nuts. I would not have believed that this could be done with a 15 year old box.Įven better: I can boot this kernel standalone to kodi-19 and stream live or recorded tv from my mythtv pvr! Unreal, it doesn't even lag once i turned off interlacing.Īgain thanks to user KTrad for posting that ISO. it is responsive and smooth with some light doomscrolling in chromium, can use it to ssh out to my other machines, I even took a zoom call on it. I am able to run this machine with the latest 64bit kernel. Then I stumbled upon this thead, and tried the 20.04 ISO posted by KTrad. Slow and clanky as expected, but somewhat useable. At first I tried the i386 release 18.04 from the downloads page. It has been sitting on a shelf literally for 10+ years.Įvaluating this MATE distribution for other reasons (raspberry PI), I stumbled onto a whim that I could maybe try running this distro on this old Imac. I have an old Imac mid-2006 intel, white plastic case. Again, many thanks for your work on providing these loads, it's much appreciated! I believe this OS will enable this Macbook new life as a simple task machine: Internet, email, videos, which it is intended for. This may need tweaking, I'll have to investigate. Trackpad: scrolling on websites seems a little wonky, it can be harder to have a smooth scroll on FIrefox.Which seems to be a limitation of Clementine, so I did not bother to see if it would burn a CD. I tried to download Clementine,īut found that this app does not identify tracks/album etc. Rhythmbox: I tried to burn (extract) a CD (yes, some people still do this), and when I tried this, the app would crash immediately, with a bug report.So: I'm not sure this is HW, I have seen some things on similar behaviour in other forums, I'll have to see if there's a SW fix that works, and will post if I do It looks like the sleep mode gets stuck - after banging on some keys, I seem to be able to get it working by closing the screen, and slowly opening about 3 degrees to see the screen light up and reflect on the keyboard.I've had to do this HW workaround several times to get it to finally wake up. I noticed the MATE symbol very faint in the screen, but it was still black, with no real keyboard access. Sleep mode: after the first restart to complete the install, I found that the screen would not light up.I'll see if there's a setting to change that I had asked for the 'login automatically' at install, but it seems I have to put in the password at every login. ![]() It seemed to work - this was easier than getting a USB/bootloader SW for me, as I didn't have any USB keys lying around, but plenty of DVD's. NOTE: I did testing, and the install, based on a DVD burn. > I decided to blow away the Mac OS completely, and run MATE 20.04. My specs:Processor 2.33Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo ![]() ![]() I'll add some things quirks I've found, and try to post solutions (if I can find them) for others, as I think this is a great thing to do. ![]() Browsing sites looks incredibly crisp, and video on things like CNN, BBC and YouTube look good (420p runs fine, 720p choppy but understood from HW). Some quick thoughts: I love the look of the desktop, and the UI tweaks that are available. I was able to get it to install.now the fun begins! After trying some other loads (doing research on the Intel Core 2 Duo/32bit EFI issue lead me here I could not get any loads from Matt Gadient's site to boot), I decided to go with MATE 20.04. FIrst off: Thanks for these loads! I was looking for an Ubuntu load to re-ignite an old Macbook 2.2 for a friend, that worked fine, but was stuck on OS 10.6.8. ![]()
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