Debian on a 475 has to be at least tolerable, from reports I've heard on this
list. Hey, if nothing else, you can get it (c'mon, how much of a dent is �5 in
the average wallet?) and find out what you think first-hand, and if X is too
slow, then you can just set it up as a WWW server like The Maniac did.
Define tolerable?
Debain works fine in command line, it obviously makes a decent server running on various 68k macs. You dont need a mouse for that.
Under a desktop manager you get different degrees of slow. While I've run KDE and Mozillia I'm rarely bored enough to do it often.
Perhaps the extra 8mhz over my cpu makes a world of difference but I doubt it.
Haven't tried NetBSD can anyone offer a comparison about the performance of X between the two.
Can you install BSD online from the floppy image?
Hey, they're both free. Install them, choose which one you perfer, then see if a 3 button mouse is worth a look, it would be nice to use in the mac partition you'll probably still have regardless.
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