Re: Old G3

2010-04-21 Thread Paul Kemner
Look underneath it- it should say how many mhz the processor is. If it's a slotloading machine with firewire, it should run 10.4 tiger. If you're going to use it for anything, look up how much memory it can take, and max it out. The more memory it has, the more tolerable it is to work with. NeoOffi

Re: Google Chrome OS on a G3?

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Kemner
You might also check with the fink and macports folks. Some of them may already be working on it. On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Christian Wacker wrote: > ... > I have booted linux before from my iMac, but I've never compiled > anything, and I'm curious to know what (if anything) will go wrong

Re: Google Chrome OS on a G3?

2009-11-23 Thread Paul Kemner
You might be better off trying to install Debian instead of Ubuntu- the Debian distro is still active. We had lots of trouble getting Xubuntu working on 1Ghz G4 eMacs. We had to go with an older version, and if we updated it it died. The Debian install did take some messing around. It originally b