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Re: [LUG] OT: iMac

 

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

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