Schmoburger
Well-known member
Well... Ive decided to make some use of the Sawtooth by having a play around with it as a nixbox.
From what I've gleaned, MintPPC would seem to be quite a nice option as far as a fast, functional and pretty looking distro to make the old bucket feel newish again, and get myself a little more familiar with the workings of modernish Linux's, so I downloaded me a bootable netinstaller ISO and was going to toss an install of MintPPC 11 onto the old graphite tart and see what it does. Realistically it's the only way any of my 32-bit PPC Macs are ever going to be useful again given that 10.4 is slow as balls and well,OS9 just seems like a waste of all that (relatively speaking) horsepower when 10.3 ran so fluidly and nicely before it became the useless unsupported waste of hard disk space it now is.
Anybody got any experience to share? Anything I should know? like I said, I'm fairly freshfaced in the world of modern Linux, and for that matter Linux of any description.
From what I've gleaned, MintPPC would seem to be quite a nice option as far as a fast, functional and pretty looking distro to make the old bucket feel newish again, and get myself a little more familiar with the workings of modernish Linux's, so I downloaded me a bootable netinstaller ISO and was going to toss an install of MintPPC 11 onto the old graphite tart and see what it does. Realistically it's the only way any of my 32-bit PPC Macs are ever going to be useful again given that 10.4 is slow as balls and well,OS9 just seems like a waste of all that (relatively speaking) horsepower when 10.3 ran so fluidly and nicely before it became the useless unsupported waste of hard disk space it now is.
Anybody got any experience to share? Anything I should know? like I said, I'm fairly freshfaced in the world of modern Linux, and for that matter Linux of any description.