Are the Mac G3 laptops viable now?

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

>From the LinuxPPC page, it looks like they're working now, but it
doesn't really say much else about it (like how well they're working).

So I was wondering if any one here had any experience using one.  I've
got a friend who wants to get started with Linux, and seems like an
excellent candidate to join Debian later, but she also needs a Mac
laptop.  I could probably talk her out of it if the G3's really don't
work that well with Linux/Debian, but she'd be much better off right
now if she could have one machine that did both MacOS and Linux.

Thanks

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