Alex, thanks for the tip re "netatalk" for Linux. I knew my Linux boxen would be doing the heavy lifting, negotiating among platforms, Macs and Win, but this affirms it yet again. I use Mandrake (Red Hat-derived); like other Mac users, my spending gobs of time at a CLI ain't my idea of a good time. I want to network my 8500 with my other 'puters as simply and inexpensively as possible. My 8500 came - sans any documents - with MacOS 8.5 (2 weeks ago!). Is OS 8.6 pretty much a necessary upgrade, short of investing in 9.1/OSX? That's the impression I've gotten searching the TIL at apple.com. Don't know if I can upgrade the 8500 for OSX - money's tight as I'm currently disabled - but I would surely like to have OSX.1, as it seems much more cross-platform-happy (besides being cooler than shit...;-). How big an upgrade would I need (beyond a G3/4 card and 256MB of RAM, heh heh...?) My girlfriend and I'll be at MacWorld at the Javits Center tomorrow ( um, I mean today). I'll pay special attention to any s/w that does translation betw. OSes/platforms, and I'd expect to find a LinuxPPC contingent there. Dual-booting Mac/Linux would be an interesting experience after seeing the seamless job it can do with Win. > > Speaking of Samba, Steve Jobs announced that SMB support will be built into > OS X 10.1. Cool! (Too bad for Thursby though. They just released DAVE for OS > X yesterday.) Yeah, saw that in Jobs' Keynote this morning, I'm thrilled. Thursby can't be. Jobs' Keynote impressed, demonstrating once again that Jobs digs innovation, is at the leading edge, whereas Chairman Bill sounds like a used car salesman issuing smarmy assurances that M$ stuff is "... really really cool and everyone wants it..." Sure. Easy to say with an almost total monopoly on the desktop but, of course, Linux is eating M$'s lunch in server space. The official numbers don't touch the non-webserver component, which cannot be quantified inside corporate or private systems. I enjoyed watching the Keynote's "PPC blows away Pentium 4" graphics competition, but I would like to see what a dual-processor MacOSX server would do against x86 servers running Linux and Win. MacOSX's optimization for the PPC - like the better-than-Win's optimization for 586's and 686's in Linux - should make a difference, but I've seen no head-to-heads for general applications. I've heard that non-graphics apps run e... Later. Dick Busch -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 740 Printers refurbished $79 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Save on Mac software -- Shop Software Outlet.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/software.outlet.html> Star Wars Complete Collection on Video CD - $32.97 Back to the Future Collection on Video CD - $15.97 EurekaMovies.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/eureka.html> - - - - - PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
