29 Dec
2011
29 Dec
'11
1:15 a.m.
On 28/12/11 11:22 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 12/27/2011 03:42 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Hmm, when my dual 2.5 is fixed I'll have a spare dual 1.8 to experiment
on. Is dual boot possible, and what distribution have you tried (I'm a
Gentoo man)?
--Toby
Over Yule dinner, a friend offered me a free
computer. Not really
vintage by CCtalk standards, I guess. A dual-core 2GHz G5 Mac Pro.
The thing is, I am considering getting rid of my PowerPC OS X Macs. I
like OS X very much, but despite Cameron's valiant efforts with the
very nifty TenFourFox, it's running out of current browsers and it
only runs a version of Mac OS X that's now 2 releases out of date. As
a writing tool, a G3 with MacOS 9.2 on it would almost be more use, as
it makes no pretence of being a current machine and one wouldn't
expect most modern websites to work...
I am torn. I'd love it, but I'm not sure I really have any use for it,
and I'm short on space and already paring back the collection... :?(
Linux runs quite well on that hardware, quite zippily too. That'd get
you current browsers and everything else, along with a whole lot of CPU
performance.
-Dave