Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
On Thursday 25 November 2004 09:31 am, Christopher Wood wrote:Michelle, I have gotten dozens of old x86 boxes at my local dump. Last week I scrounged up a Sony Vaio 1.7 gigaherts P4 with a USB, Firewire, 80 gig drive, CD burner, dvd player, 64 meg Nvidia card, 256 megs of ram. It runs awesome. I can't believe what gets thrown away for recycling in the pc world. If you go the Linux route I personally prefer running it on an x86 box than an old world Mac. Never installed it on a new world Mac as I like OS X on a Blue & White G3 given 512 megs of ram and at least 400 MHz. oh, these old pc's usually have pc 100 or 133 ram to scrounge, or nice burners and big drives for Mac's which is cool.
Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
I know that, for one thing, I can host Unreal Tournament (1999) games onMichelle, there is a native version of the original UT for Linux. There
this thing if I run either MacOS 9 or X. But suppose I want to do other
things? Like maybe have a web server, or FTP, or even IRC?
are lots of Linux UT servers out there hosting games.
Yes, but UT for Linux is an x86 BINARY, not PPC native. The source code is NOT available. If I run MacOS 9 or X I can host it on a PPC.
Believe me, I'd rather put Debian PPC on this machine. It would be less stressful than X and more stable than 9. However, it would mean no UT. So I have three choices: field an x86 machine instead of a PPC, or run either MacOS 9 or X. I have the x86 machines to where I could conceivably turn one into a server, but I'd rather run on the Blue-And-White.
And of course all bets are off if I don't get the G4 my friend will be handing down to me. It all depends on if he gets a job and is able to buy the G5 he's lusting after.
In that case, my server will probably be Linux on x86. Which will make it off topic for this list. Oh well.
Chris Wood
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