Once I can get ahead a bit, I'm going to buy me an iBook. I've looked at everything I can find, and the iBook just has it all. So, by then I'll be a Mac geek, from what I understand.
--JMS On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 10:56, John Hebert wrote: > I recently bought a used PowerMac 8500 and installed > Yellow Dog Linux (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com) on > it. YDL uses RPM and has lots of neato features like > YUP (YDL Updater), etc. > > I also read that Darwin (the BSD core of Mac OSX) now > runs on some PowerPC chips, including my 8500! So, I'm > going to attempt to install Darwin and later OSX on my > 8500. > > Which brings me to my question: are there any Mac > geeks on this mailing list? It's been a heck of a > while since I played with a Mac at length, but it > seems easy enough. I have a few questions, like: Can I > run some kinda video editing app like iMovie on MacOS > 8.0.1? Where would I download files? etc, etc. > > I'm hoping to generate more interest in Mac OSX in the > BRLUG, since it is UNIX at its core. The move by Apple > to an open source based kernel was one of the biggest > events in the last few years to support the open > source movement. I am very surprised that there hasn't > been more excitement about it in the open source > community. The PowerPC chip is very fast for the > price: I paid $100 for the PowerMac 8500 (128MB RAM, > 8GB ext drive) and monitor. I plan to make it a > development server running either Linux for PPC or > OSX. > > John Hebert > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
