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  Why Install Linux on Your Mac?
Subject:   Linux on Mac a new life
Date:   2005-08-22 20:44:31
From:   Scheidel21
This might be posted a little late, however, I have a good reason for running linux on a Mac. Breathing new life into old hardware. I have an old powermac clone running a 180mhz 603ev processor, not the fastest around. It did well running MacOS 8.6 but I didn't really use it anymore. So what did I do, turn it into a test bed for my network running Linux, I have had Mandrake, LinuxPPC (an old distro no longer around), and finally Debian/GNU linux on this box, I found that MacOS as a graphical OS is better for this machine as it lags with KDE or GNOME, however, I have become quite content to run it in command line and it consumes so few resources. By adding VNCSERVER I have allowed myself to VNC to it when I need to do sme administration I feel qeuasy about in command line. Currently I am using this linux machine, and my Windows XP box, along with colinux running in WinXP to teach aquaint myself with IPv6. Try getting IPv6 for Mac classic OS..haha I doubt it! I recently purchased an old performa which I am going to run for my sons as they are 3 and I feel Mac classic OS is a great place for them to start. But for the adults in my house linux on an oldworld powermac can't be beat! Of course I feel that Linux can breath life into not just old mac hardware but old PC hardware too, it's the command line baby so little resource hogging. I would like to get a G3 Mac to install linux on too just so can run one with graphical interface. Without the need to pay for OSX. If I were to purchase a new MAC I would stay with OSX as long as I could, but when it comes to old hardware nothing beats linux.


Alex