At 11:45 PM +0200 8/6/05, Are Hansen wrote:
We have a couple of G4 AGPs (with OSX) and a 9600 networked. Have so
far used a 6500 (don't laugh!) as an AppleShare server for them.
It's now well established that OS9 machines don't serve OSX well;
slow and unstable connection, suddenly drops out.
Now we are offered a G3 300 with 320 Mb RAM, and I was thinking of
using this as a server. Will it run OSX OK? What about the different
revisions? As I understand it, the earlier ones came without onboard
FireWire. Does that mean they can't run OSX without XpostFacto?
Don't know yet what revision the offered Mac is
The 300mhz B&W should work fine with OSX, unless you're doing high
end image processing stuff or huge amounts of serving. It won't be
as snappy as your AGPs, but it'll do better than a beige as it has a
faster bus speed. B&Ws don't need XPostFacto to install X.
I can't remember if the firmware upgrade will be needed in order to
install OSX or to upgrade your processor above a certain level - I
did both things on mine at about the same time. Someone here will
certainly be able to address that.
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