Will Mac X 10.3 work on old Emac?

I have a an old emac with Mac OS X 10.2.8
However, i need to put 10.3 or higher on and just wondered whether it would work?
Emac
1Ghz PowerPC G4
Memory 512 MB Ram
Hard Drive currently have 60G left
Will it work?

Short answer: yes.
If you're upgrading, might as well do to 10.4 since that eill be supported longer than 10.3. You'll need the retail (black label) Tiger Install DVD (assuming you have at combo or superdrive, internal or external). Model-specific (grey label) OS X Install discs may not include to full set of drivers needed for a particular computer and can cause strange problems. 512MB RAM will run either 10.3 or 10.4 although you may want to upgrade to 640 MB or more (your model will take up to 1 GB) using Crucial as a reference and eMac - Do-It-Yourself for RAM installation instructions.
There's a handy upgrading checklist at Gulliver - OS X System maintenance. After upgrading, you'll likely need the OS X Update Combo 10.4.9 (PPC) and to use Software Update to gather various security and application updates.
One thing to be aware of: some of the 10.4 upgrades may boot the computer twice after installing. That is, you run the update, it finished the 'optimizing system' stage, restarts, you get to the grey screen / white Apple logo, and then the computer restarts again. This is normal. Also, the first startup after an OS update can take significantly longer than usual; don't interrupt the computer by trying to cycle the power or turn it off at this point! Subsequent updates will be faster than usual.
Don't forget to update any third-party utilities you have, especially anythin that adds on to the menubar or that's a disk utility program of any kind (see e.g. Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes).
The bump from 10.2.8 to 10.4.x will give you a pronouncedly more responsive feeling computer. It's well worth the effort!

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