[Cialug] Old Mac PowerPC

[Bryan Baker]

Can you tell us what model it is, that should clear it up.
Choose "About this Mac..." from the apple menu and it should at least  
give you model/ram

On Jun 17, 2005, at 7:24 AM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> I bought it off a friend for fun because I had never played around  
> on a Mac OS 9 computer. I'm much less familiar with hardware  
> details than most of you. It is one of those PowerPC deals before  
> the G3. I think it has one of those add-on cards to make it run  
> faster. It runs OS 9.1 or 9.2 (it's been a while since I played  
> with it) pretty well.
>
> I have used SuSE and Red Hat before (as in late 1990's) but nothing  
> on a PowerPC platform, so wasn't sure what distributions were  
> considered best for that platform.  Thanks for your input.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
> On Jun 17, 2005, at 6:52, Renegade Muskrat wrote:
>
>
>> How old a Mac are we talking about? I have a 400 MHz G3 iMac  
>> (which shipped with OS 9) that runs Linux well enough that it  
>> could be my primary computer if i wanted it to. I'm running Debian  
>> Sarge, booting off an external firewire disk. On a side note,  
>> there aren't complete instructions anywhere on the web that i  
>> could find for getting Debian (or any other distribution) running  
>> on an external firewire disk, so if someone wants to know how it  
>> is done i could type something up.
>>
>> You mention SCSI which makes me think your machine is even older  
>> than my old iMac. Is it one of the earlier G3 models? Or is it  
>> before the G3? Those really old machines are going to be rather  
>> slow. If you don't run X it should do great. Or if you do run X,  
>> if you use one of the minimalist window managers it will probably  
>> still be OK. As for which distribution to use, that's obviously up  
>> to you. Yellow Dog is one of the more well known PowerPC distros,  
>> though i haven't really used it. At one time i had Mandrake (now  
>> Mandriva?) running on a G3 Powerbook. Now i use Debian if i want  
>> Linux on PowerPC. Ubuntu also has a PowerPC release.
>>
>> At 09:23 PM 6/16/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> >I have an old Mac computer OS 9 sitting around and I'm thinking of
>> >putting Linux on there.  What do you all recommend?  Do any of  
>> you have
>> >experience working with this kind of setup and have any pointers I
>> >could benefit from?  I probably won't do it until late summer  
>> with my
>> >schedule as it is, but just gathering information.  It does have an
>> >external SCSI drive and the Zip Drive as well.
>> >
>> >Also, I wondered if you had any solid Quickbook replacements that  
>> would
>> >
>> >run on Linux.  I have heard of like GNUCash or something like  
>> that, but
>> >
>> >last I had heard there were no "mature" platforms that were really
>> >ready for use.  Any feedback on that?
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> >Stuart Thiessen
>>                                                -- Dan
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