On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:42:10PM +0100, xav wrote: > Hi all, > > Somebody I know have the opportunity to buy one of the following, > which is the best ? > > 7600/120 > 7600/132 these are ok. > PowerBook 270C anchient m68k box, likely lacking a math coprocessor and thus may be resistent to *nix OSes. > PowerBook 520C contain an LC040 m68K chip, these machines reject all forms of *nix. > PowerBook 3400C don't know much about this, i think they are ok. > PowerBook 5300C lemon, fire hazard etc stay away. > PowerBook DUO 2300C this is also from the lemon era of apple > Quadra 6100/66 this is probably m68K, should run Debian/m68K but check the various sites first. m68K machines are painfully slow by todays standards. > Starmax 4000/200 don't know much about these. out of these i would say the best bet for running Debian GNU/Linux would be the 7600's, the powerbook 3400 might be ok, but i am not certain. (it might be nubus in which case it won't run anything but mklinux, though the linux kernel is finally getting support for nubus, this is still immature) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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