[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian advice

[Tom Adelstein]

adelste at netscape.net wrote:
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> severian at pobox.com wrote:
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>> Lance,
>>   Thanks for the advice.  I read enough to decide I needed more time.  
>> So, I installed Mandrake 9.1 on that machine to get it running.  I 
>> would probably have gone SuSE, but I have had no luck printing to a 
>> network printer from SuSE.  I upgraded my Windows 2003 Server at home 
>> to Debian Linux and I'll take some time and upgrade it.
>>   This week I'll try installing Linux on  MAC 7600 with a G3/400 with 
>> 512K L2.  I see three choices, which are Mandrake 9.1, Debian, and 
>> Yellow Dog.  I'd go OSX, but OSX seems to need a CPU with a 1 meg L2 
>> cache.  Does anyone have any advice here?  I don't want to spend much 
>> money to get this system up.  Seeing as how this is an Old World Mac, 
>> I am pretty sure I must install OS 8 on a half gig or so partition 
>> first.  Does anyone know how to configure the chooser to go to Linux 
>> by default?
>> Thank,
>> Ralph
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>> In response to the welcome remarks of Lance Simmons at 12:29 PM 8/7/03 
>> -0500:
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>>> You may want to read the apt howto, and find out about apt-pinning.  You
>>> can easily have a mixed stable/testing or testing/unstable machine, by
>>> pinning some packages to one distribution, and other packages to others.
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> I ran OSX on several G3 400 systems. I didn't have a problem at all. I 
> ran them with 256MB RAM. Check out the requirements with Apple. I can't 
> remember if the 7600 will work with OSX.
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> Regarding Linux, I would go with Yellow Dog. I tried the PPC versions of 
> everything else and was disappointed. SuSE's made to run on RS-6000 IBM 
> PPC's. I did run it on a New Apple G4 and it worked for testing an 
> application written for the pSeries IBM. I didn't like it as a desktop.
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> I won't say anything about Mandrake. I can just say that Yellow Dog is 
> really Linux and really Mac.
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I looked up the hardware requirements for OS X and the only old world 
system listed is the Beige Power Mac Mini Tower. I saw nothing about the 
desktop Beige Power Mac. The hardware requirements may have changed from 
OS X 1.1 to 1.2.