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As I was reading that and starting to see how the story was going, I thought you were going to finish by saying it was an old girlfriend's house whose dad hated you and would kick your butt if you showed up at the door. :D

What's the incentive to do this, rather than using an existing PPC distro? What's going to differentiate it from anything else out there?

Would be fantastic if this work is still ongoing. I can't remember what the issues were last time I was following that discussion...maybe something about working with the frame buffer? Dunno. Not that I'm using X a whole bunch on my 68ks, but it would still be cool. This is still the case...

Would be nice to have original CDs, but that's too expensive for me.

What exactly are the symbols for #, (, 0, 9, `, and q supposed to be? Are they merely decorative widgets? I think ` may be a fried egg, or an amoeba.

8-o 8-o 8-o 8-o 8-o A MDD sitting on the curb...wow. Just...wow.

ASCI Blue Pacific — 8-o Now I want a multi-way 68k box for NetBSD‼

Would you say the 604→G4 relationship mirrored the 603→G3 relationship? One thing I've never really understood about microprocessors is why some are good for MP and others not. Was m68k a MP-capable design? Obviously 604s, G4s, and G5s were.

Ha! I had that same sound clip. Oh the memories… My boot sound was Pink Floyd: "Welcome to the machiiiiiine."

Lowballing? Really? I've been getting 68k Macs for free as far back as 2002 (G1 PMacs back then, too), so unless it's something really rare, I think $10 is plenty fair. A stock C650 is a nice machine as far as 68ks go, but it's still a 17-year-old box. I presented a reasonable counter-offer...

Hmmm. I guess whenever I listed something for sale, I was not interested in causing a literal race to my door, nor have I expected that the other party would stay glued to their computer monitor until all details were finalized. I generally do work with the first person to show serious...

I hate flaky Craigslist sellers. So, Saturday, I'm online for work, and notice a C650 for $20. I fire off a quick reply saying I'd pay $10, then shut down til Monday morning. Just after midnight, the guy replies saying $10 is ok and asking if I can pick it up Sunday. Well first thing Monday...

Hmm, with the original mobo it chimes and boots to a blank gray screen.

You're right; I'd forgotten about that. I'll probably need to reinstall using the original mobo before swapping in the 575 one.

I'm booting my "Mystic" CC from OS 7.6 CD after swapping in a different HD (the old one failed quite some time ago and I just haven't gotten back to it til now), and I get Sorry, a system error occurred. bus error To temporarily turn off extensions, restart and hold down the shift key. What...

John, if you could start a thread with pictures of your setup, and maybe links to some places to source these, maybe a kindly moderator would sticky it for us. I think viewtopic.php?f=7&t=12050&hilit=benchmark&start=50#p123985 is the benchmarks you were referring to. If all this...

There's a piece of trivia I'd never heard before.

That's kind of the point of this thread. Using $foo window manager, and $bar theme, and adjusting the prefs/widgets like $so, it is kind of like a Mac. I just set up Xubuntu (Ubuntu Linux with Xfce desktop) with its Platinum theme, which puts the window widgets in the correct locations for...

If you have any tips for making your *nix desktop more "Mac-like", please post them in this thread! E.g., which desktop, what theme, settings, etc. Screenshots to match the description would be great.

Anybody know where I could find GIFs/PNGs of all the old icons mentioned in this thread? If they already exist in that format, it's easier than jumping through all the conversion steps myself.