My first Mac

[Chris M]

Yellow Dog is the most polished distro FWIU. There are
older versions of Mandrake too. Would you get gcc
though I aks myself. Funny...Im not getting an answer
--- cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
<pat at computer-refuge.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 00:12, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> > Yeah, no kidding--someone game me a Mac 6100/60. 
Not very exciting,
> > but I've upgraded the memory to 40 MB and added a
4GB hard disk from
> > parts in my hellbox.
> >
> > So, does anyone have any first-hand experience
with Linux on one of
> > these critters?  Is it worth the installation
trouble?
> 
> I ran a 6100/60 with a NuBus ethernet card in the
PDS slot (with the 
> appropriate PDS->nubus adapter) using Debian with
some old mklinux 
> kernel, as a NATing firewall with good success, a
few years ago.  
> Support for newer kernels is pretty much
non-existant (I'm not sure if 
> they support past 2.2; I know they don't go past 2.4
kernels), so you'd 
> have to go with an appropriately vintage Linux
distribution.
> 
> Pat
> -- 
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