Powerbook G3

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On 8/14/07, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I recently unearthed two Macintosh Powerbook G3s from deep in my
> house. At one point
> about 6 months ago one of them worked while the other kinda worked.
> They're 250 Mhz or so and 32 MB's of onboard RAM. Of course, my first
> thought when I found them was "Linux!".
>
> Because of their uber-low specs I wonder which distro would be suited
> to run on these machines. I'm open to suggestions and really don't
> care if I can run X or not. Bash, Irssi, Screen, Links, Nano/Vim, Perl
> and GCC are all I really need.

How about NetBSD?  An old acquaintance of mine, setient, used to let
su run our spoofing asterisk server on his 20 Mhz mac.  Yes, we could
route calls across the internet with only a 20Mhz CPU...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen

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