[wplug] Blue & White G3 + Linux

[Bob Schmertz]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, 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'm running Gentoo on an iBook2 (the pearly-colored one), if that helps.  
I'm going to be too busy to help much with that until after April 15th 
(and not just because of taxes!).  It took a while before all the 
hardware that comes on it was supported, but it's pretty much there now, 
and your older-sounding machine shouldn't have any problems, though I'm 
not sure about the modem.

>
>I have a firewire  CDRW ( Que!Fire 24x10x40 ), any success with a 
>firewire drive?

Haven't seen fit to get any firewire peripherals, so I haven't tried it.

>
>The apps i need to run are:
>multiple terminal windows -  easy enough
>A mail client  -  I use kmail at home, any other good suggestions?

I haven't been altogether satisfied with Evolution on Gentoo, at least 
when I'm trying to run a Gnome2 desktop, and the only version of 
Evolution that the Gentoo folks consider stable is based on Gnome 1.x 
with the gtk+ 1.x widget set.  Can't do "Get messages" (I use IMAP, 
YMMV), and can't just click on links in text email -- evolution doesn't 
invoke the web browser properly.

>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

Not Mozilla?  Don't know if you'll find the commercial netscape for 
Linux on a non-Intel architecture (Although I'd put the chances as 
better than for any other commercial software), but I haven't checked.  
Mozilla is fine, though, but the only Flash player is gplflash which 
usually crashes my mozilla 1.3.

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Cheers,
Bob Schmertz
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