Monday, August 08, 2005

Linux on an iMac & beginning Sun IPC exploration

This morning was very productive! I installed Ubuntu PowerPC edition on a Cherry iMac (400MHz) donated to The Working Centre and I managed to get a response over a serial connection to my Sun IPC.

The iMac works brilliantly, and compared to Mac OS/X Tiger on a slightly better iMac with more RAM (256MB vs 192MB) Ubuntu wins hands down! Tiger crawls on the other G3.

The Sun IPC is a fascinating little box because it's about the size of a lunch pail. I'm going to buy a NIC for it and use it as an apache web server.

A screen shot of the nvram shot can be found at: http://members.porchlight.ca/charm/img/sparcIPC.png.

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