On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 12:28:51AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > A Blue and White G3 will happily boot and run the latest Debian > releases (Etch or Lenny). The Beige G3s (which may have slightly > lower MHz ratings [233 for Beige vs 300 for the B&W]) will run Sarge > OK once booted -- I haven't tried Etch or Lenny, but they need a bit > of TLC to get them to boot Linux in the first place. Mail me offline > if you decide to give this a try. I'll try to help. > > There are even older Macs with sub 200MHz CPUs, but you will probably > find them too limited in the amount of RAM they can take. >
Yes, thanks. I need sub-200 MHz and lots of ram. > > Rick > > > On Feb 4, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Kelly Harding wrote: > > >PPC Macs are getting a fair bit cheap these days, and are quite easy > >to upgrade, the G4s start around 400Mhz though. G3s you can get at > >around 233Mhz, a Beige G3 with a G3/233mhz cpu should handle linux ok, > >though they're a bit of a tempermental machine really ime. Blue & > >White G3s are the better bet really for G3s. As the CPUs are ZIF > >socketed, you can add faster or slower G3 cpus to them. They'll take a > >few hard drives too without a problem. Never personally tried Linux on > >PPC/Mac as I've always found OS X to meet my needs. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
