I'm running Powerbook G3/400, system 9.2.2 with 128 meg ram and 6 gig
internal. I have a backup of 20 gig on the firewire.
I can add another firewire drive but want to avoid that expense if possible.
My objectives for going to Linux are:
1) It's open source.
2) It's more robust;
3) It is more flexible in what can be customized.
4) It runs SPlus and a number of other good stat routines that were
developed for Unix.
I want to keep my appleworks 5 wordprocessor, my OE email, and my IE and
Opera browsers, or have at least good equivalents.
Right now have narrowed down choices to YDL, Mandrake, and SuSE.
I'm not leaning toward any of them right now, it is too early.
So, anything you post regarding your choice strategy and thinking along the
way would be helpful to me. The same goes for any others who have been down
this path already.
TYIA,
d
What mac system and hardware are you running?
A blue/white G3 currently, but I may trade up to a G4 since my G3 has the
Rev 1 IDE chip and can't support a 2nd drive on the internal IDE bus.
I can't use an IDE card, because I wouldn't be able to boot from the drive
connected to it.
Jeff
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