Hey R.T.
If all you are going to do is surf the web and e-mail, etc. Than my advice
would be to stick with what you got, which is the computer with the best
user interface in the world, the Mac. With your limited hardware, you'll
just be switching over to a different GUI and not a better one. As a matter
of fact, it's worse, by far!
I love my Linux box, but only because I'm I program n Java, Perl and need
mySQL. And unfortunately the Mac (OS9 and prior) is the worst platform to
develop on. Linux desktops can't offer you the cut and paste environment you
are used to and will so dearly miss if you make the switch. kmail and Pine
are cool but I'll take Eudora or Outlook Express over them any day of the
week.
If you need a little more juice while surfing the web use, Opera when it not
a Beta anymore, in my experience it rips on even an OLD 486 and is my
favorite on Linux too. In the mean time, try iCab.
http://www.icab.de/
It's a very small download and uses very little RAM. I put it on an 7100 I
gave a friend and it works great. Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done.
Save the Linux until your ready to make a firewall and/or router out of that
7500.
Tony C
on 8/8/01 4:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I would mount one drive as root (/) and one drive as /usr. How do you
>> expect to use it? What kind of software will you use?
>
> I'd like to use it as a basic, no-frills workstation -- e-mail, surfing, the
> usual. It's got OS 8.6 on it right now and I'm fairly satisfied with that,
> but a number of people have suggested that I might be able to squeak some
> more horsepower out of the machine if I moved to Linux. I'm also just very
> curious about it. :-) I have an iMac and a PC as well, so I don't mind
> sacrificing the 7500 for the experiment.
>
> -R.T.
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