Mainly only good for cli, I've run kde but its way to slow. Netbsd is not much better or worse. Some of the light wieght desktop managers are said to work well, if a little slow.
If you already have a nix box of some sort you could try a vnc client on the mac or Exodus which is rather excellent, even better if you know how to configure your firewall properly. :) When configured you can run nix programs at good speed on your quadra which is fun. Win4Lin runs well in a window, sometime I'll try Sheepshaver, OS9 on a unaccellerated quad, in a window. :)
Need to parse this and make it intelligible for a wanderer in the wilderness like me.
So, please define the terms you use, like nix box and so on.
Hi Dwight.
CLI is Command Line Interface or lots of dos like typing to do things rather than a GUI or Graphical User Interface, like the MacOS.
The advantage here is speed, CLI is much faster on a 68k mac than a nix GUI.
KDE is a bloated Desktop Manager, a desktop manager being the program that provides the GUI, on a mac this would be the finder, on windows it would be explorer (?).
I say KDE is bloated, under NIX you have the choice of many DM's all are lighter than KDE and so provide less function, you can install parts of KDE making the install much smaller.
NIX box is a computer running linux or unix or a mix of both, I try not to favor either linux (debian) or unix (netbsd) on a mac list so NIX is what I call both flavors.
You can install different servers on a nix box, by using a client program on another machine you can view/use the desktop of the the nix box with the monitor, keyboard and mouse on the client machine.
If you had a nix server that was much faster than the mac client you could connect to the server and make use of the nix programs at good speed without installing any more than the client program under the MacOS. This is limited to the speed of the conection between the server and client computers, the standard inbuilt 10T is slower than a 10/100 connection but much faster than loading nix on a q700.
A VNC client or Exodus provide a client on the MacOS which you use to connect to the nix server.
Win4Lin is an excellent windows emulator for i386 flavors of linux in the same way Mac on Linux (forgot the name, sorry) will only work on ppc flavors of linux.
SheepShaver is a MacOS 7.5 - 9.0 emulator that you can compile for most flavors of nix (but not win32 (windows) yet).
Both of these programs can be served from a linux server and can run in a window on the quadra.
Clear as mud now? ;)
A q900 is not the best machine to make a nix desktop out of. If you have a use for a server then a flavor of nix may do the job for you.
If you would like to use a desktop at good speed with good function, stick to the MacOS. :)
LEM has a MaX list where you will find other folks who both use 68k macs and can help you to get started if you really want to try nix on a mac. Its a quiet list unless some asks a question.
A tip, find a second drive of say 2 gig or more to install nix onto, the standard drives in 68k macs are slow. This will make life easier than trying to partition the drive you have now.
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