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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Debian works on my "oldworld" PowerPC 5500/225. Grantedly it's a PITA > to get Debian on it in the first place, but once it's there it works > nicely. It's no speed machine, but it's perfectly usable as a low-end > desktop. > > Equally, free too good home if anyone wants it. I think (although I > can't remember... it's in my loft at the moment) it's has: > MacOS 8.6 > 36k modem > 10/100 PCI NIC (standard cheap RealTek job... I think I put the Mac > "drivers" on it) > TV Tuner > Video Input > Upgraded HDD to 20GB (I think) > > Now if someone had an alpha processor based system that was up for grabs I would jump at one of those too. There does not seem to be enough of these debianised around and i've had zero luck with emulators. The only one that came close apparently runs openVMS but not debian or *BSD. Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html