A Power Macintosh G4/450 falls into my lap

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Sep 1, 2008 1:48 AM EDT
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The Daily News is leaving the windowless box it has called home since some time in the '80s to move down the street to a newer, window-rich building. The current spot has lots of space — and that means lots of space filled with old hardware. The paper's design desk used to subsist on Power Macintosh G4 computers hooked up to 22-inch LaCie monitors. Resident Mac guru and digital photography expert Roger Vargo announced that anybody who wanted a G4 could get one ... until they were all gone. So how does Debian perform on a Mac PowerPC with 450 MHz of CPU and 128 MB of RAM? Surprisingly well. And there were absolutely zero configuration issues. Everything came out perfectly.

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