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> installing my favourite developing tools ... I have the OpenFirmware as
> well and miss a BIOS-like feature in a apple computer. I've bought Mac
> OS X, but on my g3/288ram it's too damn slow ..
>

You must be kidding here... I'd trade any pc-bios for openfirmware,
anytime.. ;-)
I have a iBook over here on which I sometimes test NetBSD (couldn't install
it
due to keyboard problems). Now it runs OpenBSD for the time being.
(dual boot with OSX)

For all this testing I've set up a netboot server, so I can netboot
different kernels
for testing without much hassle. (I also have several sparc's laying around
which I
have to netboot, no cd/floppy)
It works pretty well when you need to try lot's of kernels.

gr,
Axel