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Have you tried abiword for word processing? Why don’t you have the pi upload to google drive? Have the smb mount point to a rclone mount that’s google drive. S
by flatiron 5y ago
Have you tried abiword for word processing?
Why don’t you have the pi upload to google drive? Have the smb mount point to a rclone mount that’s google drive. Skip a hop :)
- udp 5y agoThat’s a really nice idea. Maybe I could do the same with Dropbox. A good project for the Easter weekend - thank you! I haven’t tried abiword as I didn’t use it “back in the day”, but I might give it a go. I’m also using AppleWorks on my iMac G3 with an identical setup. The G3 is nice because it’s fanless and therefore almost silent, though it has a bit of CRT whine nowadays.
- flatiron 5y agoGive abiword a try! It tried to clone office 97 as much as possible regarding user interface. Would get you off the windows 95 requirement and you could use Debian 32 bit. Debian would also work nicely on that g3. Bring both of them up to date! Rclone supports drop box. It’s more of a 15 minute rtfm task than an Easter weekend. If you are celebrating have a nice Easter.
- jmmv 5y agoDebian doesn’t work any more on PPC Macs, nor does any other Linux distro I’m afraid. At least I couldn’t find one when I was looking into this recently that was actively maintained. Of course you can go with an older version of Debian. Or you can give FreeBSD a spin. Still works nicely on those old machines, including the latest versions! (NetBSD and OpenBSD work too, but they are harder to install and their boot loader is pickier.)
- flatiron 5y agoYer right! I had no clue they retired Debian on 32 bit PPC! End of an era!
- unixhero 5y agoWrong https://t2sde.org/architectures/powerpc64/ https://t2sde.org/architectures/powerpc64/
- anthk 5y agoThat's a 64 bit G5. It won't work on a G3/G4.
- zozbot234 5y agoThe official port is dead, but unofficial development builds are still available. E.g. here https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ is a Debian 11 netinst for `powerpc`. More information at https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
- drewzero1 5y agoCheck out Adelie Linux[0]. I haven't committed to installing it on my iMac G4 yet, but I've tried the liveCD and it looks promising! It's been featured a few times on the "Action Retro" Youtube channel. (Incidentally, a rising star of my favorite youtube creators.) [0] https://www.adelielinux.org/ https://www.adelielinux.org/ [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLLfCgBu96M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLLfCgBu96M
- unixhero 5y agoPPC Linux can be had from the T2 Linux distribution! https://t2sde.org/architectures/powerpc64/ https://t2sde.org/architectures/powerpc64/
- boondaburrah 5y agomy go-to writing system was a repaired (got two broken ones for free, cobbled together 1 working one) 800MHz Celeron Sony VAIO with an 800x600 LCD, xubuntu, and abiword. The thing /couldn't/ connect to the internet (required a dongle I didn't have) but had a USB port for using a thumbdrive. I got so much work done on that thing.
- unixhero 5y agoAbiword is very unstable, I do not recommend it unless you save at every keypress.
- anthk 5y agoTed may work better, now it has a GTK2 interface instead of Motif.