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Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs by hollandheese on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:54PM (#36978975)
Wait... how'd you get it working on G3 machines? As far as I know, 10.4 was the last release for G3s.
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Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs by bombcar on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:36PM (#36979379)
Apple is pretty famous for dropping machines before they absolutely have to.
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Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs by xp84 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @04:09PM (#36991095)
Yup get ready for the Mac Pro that was on sale at full price until a few weeks ago at $7000 to be removed from the compatibility list for whatever comes after Sonoma.
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Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs by bombcar on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:02PM (#36993735)
Lucky someone will make an installer that works for quite awhile until they change their processor again :)
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Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs by IntelMiner on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:39PM (#36980300)
Retro computing enthusiast "Action Retro" has demoed Sorbet Leopard on his G3 laptops [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Ponlb4QPY

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Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs by hollandheese on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:25PM (#36980978)
His Pismo has a G4 upgrade card in it. So nope.
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