Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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I've got an iBook of the same vintage as the author, as well as a TiBook 667 (no DVI). I installed Mandrake 9.1 PPC instead of YDL3 on them though. I boot into MDK, then use Mac-On-Linux to boot OS X simultaneously on VT9. I hit ctrl-alt-F7 and ctrl-alt-F9 to toggle back and forth between Linux and OS X. Works quite nicely, and OS X even runs pretty respectably under MOL, even on the iBook (NOTE: You want to have lots of RAM for this...). I've installed YDL 3 on a desktop machine, and their MOL support isn't near as good as Mandrake's, but I've made it work under both. Lets you have your cake and eat it too... I still prefer OS X on a Mac that is a bit more powerful (my dual G4/800) and Red Hat on x86 hardware (my dual Athlon MP 2000), but not a bad compromise.