Star Why I Ditched MacOSX for Linux - A Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 Review
Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
Linux 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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Ditching MacOS X... Ditching Mac...
by Anonymous on Tue 20th May 2003 04:38 UTC

Hello Jon,

If trying YDL 3.0 was motivated by the sluggish behavior of MacOS X on your iBook and if you have a broadband connection, download (it's free) the 3 iso images of Mandrake 9.1 for PowerPC (Bamboo)and try it.

Now that you've put Linux on your iBook, you might want to replace the iBook itself with a PC laptop. Again, your quest of trying to avoid sluggishness will be awarded.

I did the same thing you did but earlier than you. I was already using "soon to be sued by SCO" Unices on PCs for quite some time though.

MacOS 9 will run on my "obsolete" 1999 G3 laptop until the hardware dies. Meanwhile, I switched to Windows XP for the workstation (Pentium 4), Linux and BSD for the servers, mostly running on "not obsolete at all" 1999 dirty PC hardware.

Now, should I say that I'm not flaming either