My first attempt and introduction to Linux was on a Umax S900 with a G3 550 upgrade card and it was not very pleasant. I tried Yellow Dog 3.1 but it had problems with the Twin Turbo video card that comes with many non-clone macs of that era, and it wouldn't install fully when I did get the video somewhat working. Next was Debian Woody and that did initally install but seeing as it was my first go at things, I managed to mess it up before the day was over. Every other subsequent attempt has resulted in error messages, and I have yet to find many other distos that claim to support the Umax. What's worse is now after all this, when I try to boot back into OS 9.1 every two out of three tries it crashes. I think it's something goofy with the hardware on my particular box but I don't have the energy or time to worry about it as I'm up and running on my PC with Debian Sarge.
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