[NBLUG/talk] recommend distro for ancient iMac

[Mark Linford]

Daniel:

Also, if you're interested in just trying out linux on the iMac, Gentoo
just released a LiveCD distro, ala Knoppix. Just burn the CD, and boot!
I've played around with it a little bit on my iBook - had a little trouble
getting X to work, but otherwise, it's pretty cool.

Here's a slashdot link with more info:
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/03/06/05/1151234.shtml?tid=179&tid=185&tid=190

Enjoy!

mark


>
> 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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