New Life to Old iMac

Robert Davis yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Aug 27 13:52:00 2003


Hi Michael,

This is something I've been planning to do for a while and I'm
sure your work here will make things easier for me.  Thanks a
lot for sharing this,

Robert 


On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:24:51 -0700
"Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@mac.com> wrote:

> Hi - first post to list (well - first post in years anyway ...)
> 
> I left the ppc Linux world for the x86 Linux world - but I just put YDL
> on my old iMac.
> 
> Anyway - the way I did it is actually a little uniq, using XDMCP so that
> I could use it as a desktop w/o needing to look at a fuzzy monitor.
> 
> The end result was not only a crisp desktop (thanks to my x86 Linux box)
> - but it actually is FASTER than logging into the iMac directly.
> 
> I have a small writup at http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/xdmcp/ for
> anyone else who is interested in doing this sort of thing.
> 
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