Boston Linux & Unix (BLU) Home | Calendar | Mail Lists | List Archives | Desktop SIG | Hardware Hacking SIG
Wiki | Flickr | PicasaWeb | Video | Maps & Directions | Installfests | Keysignings
Linux Cafe | Meeting Notes | Blog | Linux Links | Bling | About BLU

BLU Discuss list archive


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Powerbook G3



On 8/14/07, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I recently unearthed two Macintosh Powerbook G3s from deep in my
> house. At one point
> about 6 months ago one of them worked while the other kinda worked.
> They're 250 Mhz or so and 32 MB's of onboard RAM. Of course, my first
> thought when I found them was "Linux!".
>
> Because of their uber-low specs I wonder which distro would be suited
> to run on these machines. I'm open to suggestions and really don't
> care if I can run X or not. Bash, Irssi, Screen, Links, Nano/Vim, Perl
> and GCC are all I really need.

How about NetBSD?  An old acquaintance of mine, setient, used to let
su run our spoofing asterisk server on his 20 Mhz mac.  Yes, we could
route calls across the internet with only a 20Mhz CPU...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.







BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities.

Valid HTML 4.01! Valid CSS!



Boston Linux & Unix / webmaster@blu.org