[wplug] Blue & White G3 + Linux

[John Strange]

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com

I hear good things about them...

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 09:54, Mike Griffin wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> OS X - Jaguar seems to be giving me some serious issues on this machine.
> 300Mhz 384M RAM, I crash atleast once a week, sometimes once a day.
> 
> Was wondering if anyone ran linux on something similiar to this 
> machine. If so, what distro did/do you use?  I'm most interested in 
> putting debian on here, if you've done this could you drop me a line 
> back and let me know anything that i should 'look out' for.
> 
> I have a firewire  CDRW ( Que!Fire 24x10x40 ), any success with a 
> firewire drive?
> 
> The apps i need to run are:
> multiple terminal windows -  easy enough
> A mail client  -  I use kmail at home, any other good suggestions?
> A web browser - This one is tricky because i have to interface with our 
> online database,
>                                 and the only browser i've been able to 
> do this with is Netscape 7
>                                 on linux
> 
> I thought about just getting a PC, but i'll still run into problems 
> with the firewire Drive.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
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