What To Do With an Old G5 Tower?

lunatic1969 writes "I've got an old G5 PowerPC tower that's sitting in a spare room not seeing much in the way of use. I'd like to stick a Linux distribution on it and maybe breathe some life back into it. I've got a few vague ideas — it might be a handy file server, streaming video for a security system, or simply just to have a spare box around. My question is therefore in two parts: First, are there any particularly creative projects or ideas anyone has for an old G5, and second and most important, which distribution currently offers the best support for this box?"

Comments

Sell and go VM

[EmperorOfCanada]

You will be shocked at how much you can get for an old Mac. It is like an old Porsche. I am typing this on my old mac Powerbook G4 Running 10.5.8. Unless you are looking at something dedicated in which case a pile of junk PC with Linux will use less power and still leave you with some money I would recommend confining any Linux experiments to some sort of VM.

In years of Linux experiments I have never found a real machine to be easier than a VM for torturing Linux. I save the real machines for real servers.

Re:Or he could use it as a buttplug cabinet.

[PopeRatzo]

Is that still considered funny?

More now than ever.

And it's not so much the joke that's funny,rather it's the sputtering, squealing, hands on hips, foot-stomping, outrage that makes it so hilarious.