[plug] iBook question

[Anthony Woods]

Isn't Mac OS X Unix under the hood

http://www.apple.com.au/macosx/features/unix/

Anthony

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au
[mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Matthew Prouse
Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2004 9:52 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: [plug] iBook question


I just found a toilet seat :) I mean an Apple iBook whilst cleaning out
a 
cupboard at work. I blew the dust off it and turned it on: it works...
Boss 
gave it to me.... happy birthday!

It is an Apple G3 iBook, 366Mhz with 192MB of RAM. It's running OS 9.1 -

although I found a copy of OS X 10.2 OEM in the same cupboard (we once
had 
Mac laptops for graphics/media work). It claims it will install on this 
machine - and I will probably give it a try.

Are there any bad apples here? Did I just get handed a lemon or a toilet
seat? 
At first glance its perfect for my other life as an economics student at

Murdoch. My question is: does anyone who has, or did have, one run Linux
on 
them at all?

I asked at Linuxcult and they said Yellowdog. I asked at MandrakeUsers
and 
MandrakeClub and they've suggested Gentoo and not Mandrake 9.1 PPC.

Does anyone have any advice or experience with these machines? They look
real 
spiffy btw :-)

mousematt
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