Shall thou junk this lappy?

[linuxisevolution]

I have a macintosh e3400c. It has 32mb ram and 200mhz cpu. I have tried freebsd, dsl for powerpc, and debian for powerpc, but none will install, or even boot from the cd or floppy. I can't setup a network boot. What shall I do? I might try mac os 9... Give your opinions, and keep me busy ;)


EDIT: I met some lady at a coffee shop and she is getting rid of her eight year-old pc because it's broken. But, when she described it to me, it's all windows related problems. So, I will be installing linux on it. Thanks :)

[pytheas22]

Why doesn't DSL boot? It should be able to work on that hardware.

[baeksu]

That's quite constricted specs you have there.

32MB ram will probably not be enough to run any sort of graphical interface. You will use at least 15-20MB just getting the system running, so I doubt that running X is going to be a very pleasing experience.

Nowadays, most routers or nas boxes sold come with similar specs (see for instance the NSLU2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2), so if you "need" a box for a role on the network, you might set it up as a router/nas/mail server.

As for which distro, you might want to explore the list at penguinppc.org (http://penguinppc.org/about/distributions.php).

[kerry_s]

Why doesn't DSL boot? It should be able to work on that hardware.

cause theres no ppc version, for mac?