[wplug] The Great Mac Giveaway

[Dave Sevick]

Thanks for this thread.  Our Apple team worked with Mark Dalrymple and Vance K and other WPLUG folks back in 2010 at one of the installfests ...trying to get earlier G3 macs to run Linux with not much success.  I would like to see what happens with your installs.  We opted to just stick with OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on G3, G4 and G5 Macs ... very reliable OS.

For Intel based Macs we standardized on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, also very stable and reliable.

When possible we use 10.9.5 Mavericks on iMacs.  But in donation channels any computers that will run a OS that new are still held by the public.

I'l be away this weekend, unfortunately, but will swing by Monday to talk with Justin.

Dave
Apple Support Specialist
Computer Reach



On Oct 14, 2014, at 9:46 PM, Justin Smith <justin at adminix.net> wrote:

>> I could provide some help with Debian (and a little with Ubuntu).
>> If enough people express interest, maybe there'll be an installfest for
>> this.
> 
> That's certainly a possibility. We've got the room on Saturday from 10:00 - 
> 2:00, but the meeting will only go from 11:00 - 1:00. There's an extra hour 
> at each end.
> 
> It would have to be on Saturday, though - everything must go by early next 
> week. Our storage closet is so full that you literally can't even enter the 
> room any longer. I will give away what I can by the 18th, and any 
> remainders will be donated to Computereach. 
> 
> So how about it? Should we do an impromptu Mac InstallFest at Pittsburgh 
> Filmmakers? I could try to reserve one of the classrooms so that people 
> wouldn't have to bring monitors, keyboards, and mice.
> 
> -- 
> *Justin Smith*
> GNU/Linux System Administrator
> 
> /"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; 
> nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will 
> not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is 
> full of educated derelicts."/
> 
> /-Calvin Coolidge/
> _______________________________________________
> wplug mailing list
> wplug at wplug.org
> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug

--------------------------------------------
Dave  Sevick
Executive Director
Computer Reach
Humanitarian Computer Outreach
Mobile:  724-779-0099
Email:  dsevick at ComputerReach.Org
--------------------------------------------