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?
If you're mostly concerned with the speed of X, you should get something like an ATI Rage or Radeon PCI card. I have been buying Sapphire Radeon 7000 cards from Newegg for around $45 USD and flashing the Mac ROM onto it (although the cards will only run at 143 MHz). But any Mac compatible ATI card should do for both serving the console and running X pretty decently.
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.
Just out of curiosity, what software do you run on BeOS? I used to have a real dual processor Be machine, but it hardly ever did anything because I could never find much software for it (but that was many years ago...)
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.
L2 DIMMs can be bought off of eBay or elsewhere for very cheap. I got one for my Motorola Starmax for around $5 USD total, shipping included.
That said, you may have difficulty getting the video hardware running on any free Unix. A friend has been trying to get his Apple video in/out hardware working under some various GNU/Linux distros, but in spite of much work, it isn't working yet.
If I had to do video in/out using a free Unix, I'd buy a Hauppauge video card (or any based on the Brooktree Bt848 chipset) and run it under NetBSD. It's decently supported, and, from what I hear, the card works well even on slower systems (not that a 275 MHz 603ev is slow, mind you).
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Maybe Ryan would be happier on the G-List where OSX is more of a topic and people post reams of nothing each day?
Probably for that reason this list will dry up more in the future since people will gravitate to OS X for their Unix needs, as it comes with every new Mac.
There are still millions of m68030, m68040, and pre-G3 PowerMacs for which OS X isn't an option. So long as people can pick up machines like a 7300 for $20 USD or less, there will be many uses for these machines which don't include OS X.
John Klos
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