> You can get or compile a lot for PPC. As for the rest, well, for > example there's no acroread, and we have reached Netscape 4.7 on the > PPC. But as far as I can tell the system is stable. Once it's going -- > which can take some time: different boot methods, printing to the > serial port, you should know how to configure a keyboard, and so on > --, it's fine and performs well. I'm running potato/Helix Gnome on a > PB 3400.
Thanks, that's interesting/good to know. That's what... a 300+ Mhz machine? > The 5300's performance under MacOS is far from good, and the only > Linux to run on that beast is MkLinux, without SCSI- and CD-, and with > only buggy serial port support. It's said to be faster than MacOS > though. Apart from that, the power plug and the serial port hardware > are of incredibly low quality. Do not buy this machine. > YPB5300MMV, but I don't believe it would. I'll take your advice. The person wants a lot more than I want to offer - she's also mentioned the value of the included software, in which I am not interested... Thanks, Hugo van der Merwe
