A mountain of old Macs

[kory white]

You can try Debian...also there is a 68k version of Yellow Dog Linux...and
I've heard you can run LinuxPPC on 68k machines as well. The oldest I've
used is a Power PC 6100.

If you want I can try to locate some software that would run on those
machines.

on 1/17/02 5:25 PM, Lincoln Peters at lincoln_peters at hotmail.com wrote:

> I just discovered that in the microscope lab at RCHS, there is a table at
> the edge of the room that is piled with old Macintosh LC's piled on it, as
> well as at least one Apple IIgs.  Nobody has been able to explain them, so
> I'm guessing that they got so outdated that they weren't very useful anymore
> (?), but nobody knew what to do with them.  Now, everyone has either a Dell
> or a newer Macintosh (an iMac or a G3; I've heard rumors that someone has
> G4's, but I've never seen them), and I'm still looking for soemone who would
> take Isildur (the donated Linux workstation).
> 
> I'm trying to think of something useful to do with them, and I remember that
> Debian supports the m68k architecture.  Isn't that what the old Macintoshes
> use?  Has anyone ever tried running Linux on an old Macintosh?  I'm guessing
> that if they could run Linux, they could do almost anything that a Linux
> system with similar Intel-based hardware could do.
> 
> 
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