On 1/5/2013 8:44 PM, James Fraser wrote:
Hello,
--- On Sat, 1/5/13, Robert Hesson <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't think the quadra can run anything over 8.1? Never tried though.
Yes, apparently 8.1 is the cutoff (at least, according to the spec sheet it
is). A PPC upgrade would presumably let you go beyond that.
It sounds as though you might need to become acquainted with Linux:
http://www.anytux.org/hardware.php?system_id=853
...in a hurry if you want to win your bet. Perhaps someone on the list is
running Linux on a Quadra and can speak to that?
Actually, I have a LC475 running Debian right now and... well, let's
just say it's an exercise in possibility. The main issue is disk access
is very, very slow. I actually do have Firefox (3.5, I think?) running
on it, but it takes a good couple or three minutes to even start up,
much less even try to display anything. There's also something wonky
with the display colors where the colormap isn't quite right. And I'd
shudder to even think about any sort of office program on it.
That said, 68k Linux has come a long way since I originally installed it
and there are many newer kernels and userspace things. I'm on the Debian
m68k (Motorola 68k in this case, so Amiga, Atari, etc too) and it's made
a lot of progress in the last year. It'd be interesting to try anyway.
Scott
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