[wplug] linux on mac?

[squeegy]

I ran linuxppc on a powerbook G3 for a couple of years at my last job.
In addition to less precompiled binaries, not everything compiles on
linuxppc.  Mac on Linux which is open source I think is very cool.
My first computer was an Apple IIe and I owned some of the early macs.  I
used to run my home page and mail server on an old mac se 30 with netbsd
installed.  I have upgraded a powermac 7500 to a G4 450mhz just recently
and haven't decided between trying OS X or installing linux on it. It
depends on if I can get either of them to run this old thing.  Where I use
to work, we were running a blue g3 with linuxppc as a production server,
but there was talk of turning it into a mac os x server.

 > I have a little experience with Linux on a Mac.  A blue G3
will
work > well, since all of the hardware should be supported by now.  (The
> biggest problem with installing Linux on Macs is that since Apple comes
> out with a completely new set of machines each year, support for recent
> h/w can be flaky.)  Once you get it installed it really isn't that
> different from Linux on X86 except that fewer precompiled binaries exist
> and some third-party hardware won't work.  But Linux is Linux, and once
> it's installed, the biggest thing to get used to is that your mouse only
> has one button.
> As for OSX, I used that at work for awhile, and I don't recommend it.
> It's slow, buggy, and h/w support is severely lacking (even worse than
> LinuxPPC).  There are very few native apps available and building
> generic Unix software from source is a lot harder than it should be.
> Besides that, it's possibly the most bloated operating system I've ever
> used.  On the beige G3 (300 Mhz, 128 MB) that I used, many programs took
> nearly twice as long to execute as their OS 9 equivalents.  (Not that
> I'm sticking up for OS 9.)  Maybe after a few releases, and once
> everyone has dual processor G4's with a gig of Ram, OSX will be a decent
> OS.  (It is a great idea, and it's very pretty....)  But if you want to
> run some Unix flavor on a Mac, I'd say stick with Linux.
>
>
> Doug Green wrote:
> >
> > Hi all-
> >
> > Recently my boss offered to "trade" computers because he needs a windows
> > 98 machine in the office. The deal would be that I'll inherit a 300MHz
> > Mac G3 (the blue one) for a Hewlett Packard PII 450. Not a bad trade if
> > you ask me... but I was wondering: does anyone have any experience running
> > linux on a mac? How about OSX? I mostly use my laptop, so I really
> > don't care what desktop is sitting in my home, but before I give
> > away my PC, I'd like to collect some advice from any mac people... can I
> > run linux on this thing and/or is OSX all it's cracked up to be (ie: can
> > I compile packages native to linux or unix on it)?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Doug
> >
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