PowerBook G4 install, How to start networking...
by smnbldwn＠hotmail.com
The Adelie Live DVD boots on my PowerBook G4 1.67GHz and is really impressive but when I try to run Horizon to install it, I can't get it to connect to the Internet. It detects the ethernet adapter (eth0) but I cannot get it to turn on and connect using DHCP. When I try stuff like ifconfig eth0 up I just get error messages. Am I missing something or is the Live DVD missing something?
6 months, 1 week
Adélie Linux 1.0-RC2 install issue on a PowerBook G4
by pembers_uk＠hotmail.com
I’m very new to Linux so have been waiting for something like this, however currently unable to get the os to install. I have been through all the steps multiple times and have even made numerous install discs, but it always fails at the same stage – ‘install software.’
Automatic network configuration is good, so I don’t believe it to be a network issue. The log says:
powerpc-1(a)packages.adelielinux.org.pub for APK signing
curl: error couldn’t download file: SSL certificate
problem: certificate is not yet valid
signingkey: error: The HorizonScript failed to execute
Other logs have said something about Thunderbird missing, but I didn’t keep a record.
I’m sure its something I’m missing, or doing wrong, but any help would be appreciated as I’m at a dead end!
Thank you.
6 months, 2 weeks
Adelie linux 1.0 RC 2; No network manager?
by Sanjay Mysore
Hello
I want to install it on my desktop via the 'live' dvd. But KDE5 plasma does
not show a network manager...
I use mobile phone hotspot tethering for internet connection
How do I do it, without Network Manager?
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With Best Regards
Sanjay. M.R
6 months, 4 weeks
Progress Report for Adélie Linux on PPC + SunSPARC
by Steve Arkwright
Hello — I’m completely new to Adélie Linux and have been brought here on a recommendation from ActionRetro on YouTube who was advocating this distro for use on PPC and had tested it on a somewhat ancient iMac G3.
Having read a review elsewhere, I understand that Adélie is still at the stage where everything has to be communicated through CLI.
Therefore, because (other than copy+paste and some basics) command line syntax is something I am never going to learn — ever — I am very curious to learn how long it may be (2021, 2022, 2023…), before a version of Adélie exists for most platforms (particularly PPC + SunSPARC), with fully functional GUI installers and OS with full, easy GUI and access to basic programs and codecs (akin to Linux Mints’ optional proprietary repositories auto-install), where users don’t need, for example, to download and figure out how the hell to install drivers just to get (say) WiFi up and running — and there’s a Synaptic-type package manager for hassle-free software installs.
“How long is a piece of string?”. It’s an unreasonable question, I know.
Ball Park idea? A year, perhaps? Two? Ever?
It’s probably awful (even infuriating) for you guys and girls working on CLI every day, to hear users utterly refuse to use it and demand (request), instead, a pretty OS interface just to then use it on PowerPC G3’s and stacks of old Sun servers.
It’s an unenviable task you have for sure, yet curiosity demands I have to ask: partly because nobody has, so far as I’m aware, despite their claims, come up with a linux operating system which works 100% perfectly as a daily driver on PPC architecture or for HA clustering, but mostly because I want to have fun with what you’ve created — so please forgive me.
Thank you so much!
Best regards,
Steve
7 months
