[NBLUG/talk] recommend distro for ancient iMac

C. Mike Rice dolo724 at softhome.net
Sun Jun 8 20:50:03 PDT 2003


Not sure of its compatibility, but CheapBytes.com has a "zippered" 
version of Yellow Dog Linux available rght now.

Daniel Smith wrote:

>
> I was just given an old iMac 233mhz (160mb ram).
> I'm mulling over the idea of hanging a printer off
> of it, and having it do some music streaming
> to the rest of the house.  (shifting lightweight
> tasks to it)
>
> OS X is just going to bog on this thing, so I'm
> wondering what PPC distro's (besides Debian)
> I should consider.
>
> I'd be curious to hear of any other ancient
> iMac owners that put Linux on their boxes
> (and of some of the uses - basically, how
> have you divvied up machine tasks on your
> home network?)
>
> Daniel
>






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