--- Tyler Regas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, I'm happy to hear you're getting a Mac. The primary reason for
I'm happy too. I've wanted to play with Linux on a PPC architecture for a while, and the fact that this is a laptop will make it even more useful. > whirl for a while, download some utilities, buy a license for > Kaliedoscope > (http://www.kaleidoscope.net/), give BBedit, MailSmith, and FileBuddy I was forced to use BBedit in a class in college for a semester and i hated it with every fiber of my being. I'm not at all familiar with the others that you listed. > a few > spins around the block. There are hundreds of other utilities and > enhancements to the MacOS that you can check out. I'd rather enhance Linux running on the Mac, then waste time with Mac OS. If i could run Mac OSX on this little guy, i'd consider it, but since i can't, i really don't have much of an interest. My better half loves Macs, and i'm gradually convincing her of how good linux is. Hopefully this will be the final step. > Second, while its unlikely that your 3400c will have been upgraded (a > complex mobo swapping procedure as there are no CPU upgrades) the > 240MHz > version is pretty speedy. My wife uses here 7300/200 daily and we've > had > MacOS x running on it. That's a 200MHz 604e, btw. If you are still The 3400c that i'm getting does have the 240Mhz CPU (thankfully). Are you saying that it can run OS X? Everything that i've read over the past few days seems to suggest otherwise. > Finally, you can install any one of the numerous 60x and 740/7400 > compatible Linux distros. The ones I know of OTTOMH are SuSE, > Mandrake, > Linux PPC and YellowDog. I've been looking closely at YellowDog, and it seems fairly well polished & maintained. PPC Linux seems to be a bit out of date (a fairly old 2.4.x kernel for example). I've heard way too many instability nightmare stories about Mandrake, so i won't even touch it on any architecture. I was going to consider SuSE, however since I only have a 4GB harddrive, i don't see how i'll ever be able to take advantage of the 6 CDs. What are you running on yours? > Then again, maybe you could get a 1400cs that's upgraded to a G3/400 > 2:1 :) Beggers can't be chosers. I'm basically getting this PB as a trade for some other hardware i've got lying about. thanks for your input! ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
