[wplug] Blue & White G3 + Linux

[Doug Green]

I have/had one of these machines (400mhz, 256Mb). Both Yellowdog and 
Jaguar ran fine on it, and eventually both started crashing. 
Occasionally, the system would just hang- completely- unresponsive to 
any input (other than pulling the power cord). This became more and 
more frequent, until one time, it just didn't boot. There were no BIOS 
boot "beeps" or anything. Apparently, I fried something (CPU, logic 
board, I have no idea). The folks over at MacOutfitters in Cranberry 
said that the Blue & White macs are notorious for several hardware 
problems, and it's probably not worth fixing.

Hopefully your problem isn't hardware, but I wouldn't rule it out. 
Jaguar is a resource hog, but it should run fine (perhaps a little 
slow) on your machine. Just thought I'd share my misadventures...

Doug

PS- Anyone wanna cheap DOA G3 Mac?? ;)

On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 09:54 AM, 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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