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insidesocal.com » CLICK - Nov 1, 2008
As of today, here are all the machines I use and what they run: At the office: Work box: Dell Optiplex GX520 Pentium 4 (3 GHz) 512 MB RAM Windows XP SP2 The Debian Mac: Power Macintosh G4 466MHz single PowerPC …
Also tagged: hardware, linux, debian, dell, flash memory, ubuntu, puppy, ibook, solid state drives, openbsd, strictly geek, the 15 laptop, the 0 laptop, cheap computers, the0laptop, the15laptop, thedebianmac, the self reliant thin client, theselfreliantthinclient, thisoldpc
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 23, 2008
I've been running Debian in one form or another, on one box or another, ever since Etch went stable in April 2007. Lately most of my work in Debian has been on my Gateway laptop (aka The $0 Laptop), which from a …
Also tagged: debian, ubuntu, powermacintoshg4
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 22, 2008
The answer is yes: Tripling the memory on a Power Macintosh G4/466 running Debian Etch makes a dramatic difference in the responsiveness of the system. It makes the system way, way more usable, cutting down on …
Also tagged: debian, thedebianmac
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 19, 2008
Since the Power Macintosh G4/466 has enough space for four hard drives, I decided to put a second one in the box. I originally planned to dual-boot Debian Etch and OpenBSD, but I still can't get the system to even …
Also tagged: debian, rsync, openbsd, powermacintoshg4, backups and storage, carlaschroder
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 19, 2008
Since the Power Macintosh G4/466 has enough space for four hard drives, I decided to put a second one on the box. I originally planned to dual-boot Debian Etch and OpenBSD, but I still can't get the system to even …
Also tagged: debian, rsync, openbsd, powermacintoshg4, backups and storage, carlaschroder
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 16, 2008
I've taken to calling my Power Macintosh G4/466 the Debian Mac. I continue to be amazed at how well Debian Etch runs on this thing with 466 MHz of PowerPC CPU and a smallish 128 MB of RAM. (I'll take this opportunity …
Also tagged: debian, powerpc, powermacintoshg4
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 13, 2008
To get sound to come out of the front speaker — which isn't the default, by they way — on the Power Mac G4 (mine is a 466 MHz) while using Debian Etch, open a terminal. run alsamixer: $ alsamixer Arrow over to PC …
Also tagged: debian, powermacintoshg4
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 10, 2008
When we left off, Fedora was taking quite a long time to install over the network on this Power Mac G4/466. I returned to the office to find the Fedora 9 install finished. I rebooted. No X. After Debian Etch …
Also tagged: debian, fedora, openbsd, powermacintoshg4
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Sep 6, 2008
I didn't have any complaints about the way Debian Etch performed on my new/old Power Macintosh G4/466. The install went smoothly, the system performed better than I had reason to expect with only 128 MB of RAM, and I …
insidesocal.com » CLICK - Aug 31, 2008
The Daily News is leaving the windowless box it has called home since some time in the mid-'80s to move down the street to a newer, window-rich building. The current spot has lots of space — and that means lots of …
Also tagged: debian