On 29/08/01 18:16, "Marc Sira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have to agree with Chuck here. If you are adamant on using the 2400, I
>> personally have installed LinuxPPC on it, and it worked fine. It wasn't
>> too messy of an install, but it wasn't my first install by any means,
>> and it will be non-standard. (which isn't necessarily a problem, it just
>> makes it more complicated to get help, set up a network card, etc.)
> And if you really can afford a new computer for this, you might do
> better to just buy an iBook and run Mac OS 10. Otherwise the 2400 is
> a decent Linux platform, particularly if you install one of the
> easier distributions with a nice recent kernel so there's less - or
> probably no - patching required). I've never run Mandrake (I tend
> toward Debian), but they did just release a 2.4 based PPC CD set I
> find interesting.
Over here I've tried both SUSE 7.1 PPC Linux & Yellow Dog 2.0 on an SE
iBook.
Yellow Dog very easy to install / partition with but failed to give me sound
or recognise my internal modem.
SUSE took me about three weeks sat there banging my head against the wall
every time it rebooted into a kernel panic. But after preserving here it is
doing my e-mail via USB with my Nokia 6110.
SUSE 7.1 cost me a third of the price of OS X over here, and I still haven't
finished finding out all the things I have on the seven cd's that came with
those lovely manuals!
Now I wonder if I can "Linux" one of my Duo's?
Regards
Ricky
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