Just wanted to mention that if you have an old PowerMac that you're not
using, you might experiment with loading a Linux distribution on it.  I
installed Ubuntu Linux on an old Blue-and-White G3 this weekend:

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/

This old G3 used to have OS X Panther on it, and I will say that Gnome
(the GUI running on Ubuntu) is not as snappy on this machine as OS X
was.

The one advantage to Ubuntu is that it has a version for Intel as well
as PowerPC.  So you can have the same basic OS running on both
platforms, though not all the apps run on both platforms yet.

--- Rex.



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