Just to prove that there are, in fact, people here, I'll ask a question (or few). :)
1. Has anyone tried gentoo on an old world machine? If so, were you able to get X working and was it any more speedy than YDL?
Works well under colinux on a pc, emerge -p xfree or emerge -p xorg-x11 to check either is installed then remove the -p to install and go to the movies or away for the weekend while is sorting itself out. ;) You may have better results with a video card to speed up X in YDL, I doubt there would be a huge difference between the two on a 6500's 2mb inbuilt vram.
2. Has anyone managed to get BeOS usable in the modern world? I have Personal Ed. 5 preview and have had it running before, but don't know whether I can make it relevant and whether it's worth the hassle.
Finally the NV4 drivers are working in the Online or Developers edition, relevent; yes, worth the hassle - up to you, people still work on it and with it without the limits of the personal edition, no macs here that I know of.
http://www.beosonline.com/
3. I wanted to use my 6500 to record stuff off a Tivo because it has the video in card. After trying a few things, though, I've found QuickTime's capture results to be prettty choppy. Anyone tried using that video in card to capture video under a *nix? If so, would it be good enough to make it worth the effort? This is a 275mhz 6500 with 96mb RAM and no l2 cache chip, so it ain't exactly a powerhouse.
Upgrade the cpu, max out the ram, it is likely to still be a little choppy, I wouldn't know about support under ppc linux.
Maybe Ryan would be happier on the G-List where OSX is more of a topic and people post reams of nothing each day?
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