On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, dkphoto wrote:

> Am I to conclude from this that the 'rumors' about Unix/Linux/BSD being 
> fast on older Macs and PC's are less than accurate? I had dreams of 
> breathing life back into several of these old machines. Is it just a 
> bunch of nonsense?

Certainly not. Linux and the BSDs are rightly known for efficiency. The
hardware really is just limited (especially those machines whose FPUs or
MMUs are being emulated by the kernel). NetBSD won't turn your Mac LC into
an SGI o2, but you can run recent software well on them. They make great
special-purpose machines (routers/firewalls, mail servers, et c.).


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Christopher Reid Palmer : www.innerfireworks.com