Best Mac for Yellow Dog?

[mascarasnake]

Dr. Clint,

Coincidentally, my YDL box is a 7500 with a 604e 200MHz processor. Runs 
perfectly well. It does occasionally forget the soundcard on boot, but 
that can be fixed by the modprobe thingy. The B&W G3 is, indeed, flaky. 
I did get YDL installed once when I first got mine ($200 on ebay - 
wahoo!). After that, I reformatted and organized my drives and 
partitions the way I wanted and had 2 failed attempts to install - then 
forgot about it. I plan to go back someday and try again, tho.
By the by, Panther runs pretty spiffy on my G3 - not bazing, but spiffy.

If you have the 7500, YDL runs quite nicely. If it were me, however, 
I'd put a larger drive in it.


g'luck

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dontdrill@earthlink.net
mascarasnake@mac.com
On May 24, 2004, at 5:19 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I am thinking of selling my Wallstreet PowerBook that runs YDL 3 (to 
> fund a new 12 inch PowerBook -- I can hardly wait). However, I still 
> want to keep current with Yellow Dog Linux. Would an old PowerMac 7500 
> (200 MHz 604 processor) be sufficient to run Yellow Dog 3.0?
>
> I have an old Power Mac 7500 with a 200 MHz 604 chip. If I upgrade the 
> hard drive to 2 GB or more, will that run YDL bearably well? Does 
> anyone have experience with this or a similar Mac with YDL?
>
> Should I look at something newer? Beige G3s are mentioned often on 
> this list and can be had for next to nothing these days. Blue and 
> White G3 towers are also reasonable. However, does seeing them 
> mentioned on this list mean that they are problematic machines? What 
> do you think?
>
> <aside>
>
> I bought the Wallstreet as a "writer's machine" because of its 
> incredible battery life (6-7 hours with two batteries), great 
> keyboard, and the ability to add different peripherals to its drive 
> bay. I also wanted to dual boot into YDL so that I could learn about 
> Linux.
>
> However, the Wallstreet never lived up to my expectations. First off, 
> it's *HEAVY*, weighing in at almost 8 lbs. Mac OS 9 ran well on it, 
> but OS X was a dog. It also never ran YDL optimally: sleep and resume 
> were always flaky (I generally had to restart several services after 
> sleep), and a second battery or a Zip drive in the drive bay would 
> result in a kernel panic after a short while. Not a great Yellow Dog 
> experience.
>
> The Wallstreet, batteries and drive bay goodies will go to a good 
> home. A starving artist acquaintance of mine wants to upgrade from his 
> PowerBook 145 (ca. 1992!), and the Wallstreet would allow him to keep 
> all his SCSI peripherals. I will give him a good deal (perhaps I can 
> barter for some artwork...).
>
> I am hoping that the 12 inch PowerBook is my mythical "perfect 
> writer's machine" (Euan Maxwell from this list has given it a thumbs 
> up review). I don't think that YDL is supported yet on the new 12 inch 
> PowerBooks, but that is fine with me -- Mac OS X will scream on that 
> machine.
>
> </aside>
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
>
> -- 
> Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal 
> DOT net>
>
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