hehehe. no kidding!
I'd have to setup some remote compiling as I wouldn't want to wait on that 
machine.

- Eric

On Sep 18, 2010, at 8:43 AM, Stephen wrote:

> I recall seeing a PPC built version of Gentoo, they are pretty nice
> and disgustingly flexible, but be prepared to do allot of waiting for
> complies
> 
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Technomage_Hawke
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> well,
>> I tried adriane knoppix. it still has a lot of work needed on it. There 
>> didn't appear to be a lot of documentation for using it in a shell 
>> (especially where trying to get a screen review to work). The X desktop was 
>> even worse, I couldn't access anything without a mouse (which I can't use).
>> 
>> I need a version of linux that will work out of the box and be installable 
>> on my old powerbook G3. I really would like to have that unit working.
>> 
>> I am looking around for other distributions for the blind, but so far, a lot 
>> of them require some visual assistance to install and configure (a definite 
>> sticking point for me). I might need some help from the plug list on this. 
>> otherwise, I have a paperweight for a portable that won't work with a later 
>> version of OS X.
>> 
>> - Eric
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> Stephen
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