>Does this happen under 8.6, too? If I am not mistaken, users of 8.6 should
>upgrade to 8.6 for stability, etc reasons. Also, I think that someone
>mentioned that they were running 9.0.4 on their 2300. What are you
>thinking? People get upset when I say I run 8.6 on it! 9.0.4 is definitely
>too much software for the 2300 to gracefully cope with. YMMV
The bug was introduced in 8.5 when the Energy Saver interface was
finally standardised for all Powermacs, and doesn't appear to have
ever been fixed. In other words it affects all the later versions as
well (I haven't checked whether the version number for the control
panel even changes).
As for 9.0.4, any version of the Mac OS can be trimmed down to speed
it up a lot (for a start, I always remove Apple Guide on a 2300).
Speed Doubler (specifically the faster emulation) makes a big
difference too. I was able to get 8.5 running pretty well just before
I sold my Duo (to the point where 8.1 wasn't measurably quicker), but
it took a lot of tweaking. Version numbers are a bit of a myth with
most operating systems - the OS is just a collection of software
components, and you can mix and match them, remove them, and replace
them to a substantial degree. At least as long as you know what
you're doing, or believe you do. ;)
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