[plug] Getting linux running ona beige g3 mac

[Craig Ringer]

>>Linux was then in its infancy,
> 
> Linux?? Pah, FrameMaker 2.0 was surely available not only for Mac
> but also in its X11 version for NeXT, Ultrix, Solaris, HP-UX, etc ;-)

Yep. A handy thing it would've been too, when people said "but macs are 
so expensive!". *grin*.

Of course, the core of MacOS hasn't seriously advanced since then except 
in memory footprint and slowdown factor. OS7 was the best OS around ... 
alas, its still better than OS9.

I'll keep my 1.5Ghz athlon with 2x 120g HDDs and a gig of RAM thanks. I 
remember my "gigantic" 160mb HDD in my LCIII - still got it here 
somewhere. It was a big step up from the 40mb (?) in the SE/30 I had before.

My introduction to UNIX on a personal machine (as opposed to 
tartarus.uwa.edu.au) was NetBSD on that LCIII . That's why it was more 
than a year before I even looked at UNIX again *grin*. It booted to 
"/etc/passwd not found - logging in as root". Umm....

That raises one relevant point - if you can't get YDL or Debian/PPC to 
run, try NetBSD. It seems to run on anything.

Craig Ringer