Does Red Hack suck?

[Mark Jaffe]

Eric,

As of this time, there is still a flaw in the installation on a Pismo. 
I've gotten it to work (need to provide an XF86Config file that is 
different from what gets installed by default.) If you want to try, 
email me off list and I can provide the correct file.

Mark
On Nov 7, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 18:51:36 -0800, R. McFarlane
> <ydl at mcfarlanecomputing.net> wrote:
>> <snip>
>>
>>          How about older Apple hardware? I have three PB 3400c's and 
>> I will
>> be upgrading to a Pismo as soon as I can and I need to have Linux! I 
>> know
>> the Pismo can run 10, but if I am going to run 10 I will get a new 
>> Apple. I
>> prefer Linux and I prefer Apples but I need to know for sure that the
>> distro I use will work! I originally ran LinuxPPC on my first iMac 
>> 333 but
>> that distro died. I have used YDL on my beige MT G3 and my 3400c's 
>> but in
>
> At the risk of incurring the wrath of the listers...
>
> My Pismo/400 (512 MB of RAM) does a _great_ job of running OS X
> 10.3.6! It's zippy, _ultra_ stable (last kernel panic was probably end
> of last year... unlike YDL which seems to have a profound dislike for
> FireFox and Mozilla at times (total freeze up, often on
> drag-and-drop)) and has an incredible range of software (proprietary
> and OSS) available to it (far more and higher-quality choice in some
> arenas than Linux on PPC (e.g. browsers)).
>
> Plus, you can dual-boot if you desire. I'm tempted to put YDL on the
> Pismo just to see what a faster CPU & more RAM & VRAM would do with it
> (vs. my 266 MHz G3 Beige desktop with 128 MB RAM & 2 MB of VRAM) (of
> course, the Pismo is my work horse so I'm loath to mess with a machine
> that works _flawlessly_... power & stability of *NIX, ability to run
> M$ Excel (necessary for my work... I need VB for Applications), and is
> free of .config file headaches!!!).
>
> Eric.
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