**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Feb 08, 2018, 02:19

**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Feb 08, 2018, 02:19

Matthew Graybosch @starbreaker@octodon.social

And... #flac playback works on the #iLamp running #OpenBSD. I had to use the #flac123 package, which doesn't play nice with #cplay, but it's all good.

Now I can rock while #writing.

https://octodon.social/media/LL0ISWaSIklngywhV7Q

**Bobby Moss** @bobstechsite · Feb 08, 2018, 02:58

**Bobby Moss** @bobstechsite · Feb 08, 2018, 02:58

@starbreaker I'm going to try my hand at installing OpenBSD on a "snow" iBook G4 over the weekend so will be intrigued to see how you get on.

Did you install a desktop or did you just stick to using the CLI?

**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Feb 08, 2018, 03:05

**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Feb 08, 2018, 03:05

@bobstechsite I have XFCE installed, but a 800MHz G4 with 256MB of RAM just isn't enough. So I use cwm (calm window manager), rxvt-unicode, and text-mode tools like joe, vim, cmixer, mpg123, flac123, mutt, and ranger. If cwm is too minimal, you could try openbox as your window mangler instead.

**Bobby Moss** @bobstechsite · 2018-02-08T03:11:30Z

Bobby Moss @bobstechsite

@starbreaker I've installed 1.5GB RAM, so I'm feeling good about XFCE's prospects. 😃

However, given my experience of failing miserably to install ppc builds of GNU/Linux I'm already mentally prepared for it to take more than one attempt to get OpenBSD working!

Thanks for the tips re: lightweight desktops

Feb 08, 2018, 03:11 · Tusky · 1 · 1

**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Feb 08, 2018, 03:25

**Matthew Graybosch** @starbreaker@octodon.social · Feb 08, 2018, 03:25

@bobstechsite You're welcome. Make sure to read the macppc instructions for OpenBSD, and as long as you handle partitioning properly and set up the Open Firmware boot, you should be fine.