Re: [Nubus-pmac-users] Current apt sources for Debian Sarge...

[Francis H. <fra...@ya...>]

Thomas, you say the Powerbooks will never be much good for web surfing -  
as I mentioned, Dillo 3 actually runs pretty well on my (non-G3ed) one,  
certainly well enough to read/post on forums or read techblogs (which is  
all I do on the Internet, to be honest). I also compiled OpenTTD for it,  
which turned out to be useable but a bit too laggy for actual gaming.
I'd recommend at least trying a GUI on it, the usability certainly  
exceeded my expectations.

Francis

On Thu, 24 May 2012 14:57:13 +0100, Thomas Carlson  
<tca...@sh...> wrote:

> I'm happy to hear that there are still people out there who are involved  
> with this project.  I sympathize with those who want to push it forward  
> but are hampered by old kit.  You can still get good deals at eBay on  
> functioning PowerBook 1400s.  I have numerous parts machines that I use  
> to service my mostly functioning 1400 with a G3 processor and maxed out  
> RAM.  Still, with 1mb of video ram, this machine is never going to be  
> much of a web surfer.  Probably the 2.4 kernel is just fine for what  
> it's best able to do: run a basic installation (no GUI) of Debian.  It's  
> a good machine to learn how to use the Linux command line on and I hope  
> to be more knowledgeable about that some day.
>
> Cheers, and thanks for all the responses.
>
> Tom
>
> On May 23, 2012, at 4:17 AM, Francis Herne wrote:
>
>> Tobias,
>> Thanks for the quick response, and for working on the thing at all. I'll
>> just keep using the 2.4 kernel until the laptop quits working then. The
>> power supply is annoying - currently my 1400 is powered by bits of two
>> broken power supplies soldered together! The clock battery is playing up
>> now, though - does anyone on here know what voltage it's meant to be? At
>> the moment, it keeps resetting to 1904, which is rather inconvenient.
>>
>> P.S.: Anyone with experience of using Linux on m68k? I got my PB190
>> working again, is there a useable kernel for it?
>>
>> Francis
>>
>> On Wed, 23 May 2012 06:18:52 +0100, Tobias Netzel
>> <int...@us...> wrote:
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