[miir]

Hi,

I recently gave my old Ibook clamshell to my parents, its running OSX v10.3 but they both appear to hate it. They are a bit stuck in the windows rut. Anyway, I want to try them on another OS and I'm thinking linux as its the only other OS I know of that can be booted on a non-intel mac. I just wanted to ask if anyone knows if there are other OSes I can try. Initially I was looking for a bootable x86 emulator so that I could run windows on it but as far as I can tell you cant emulate x86 without first booting into either linux or OSX.

Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate them.

[brokenjago]

Ubuntu has a PPC distribution.

[mfbernstein]

A Windows emulator on a clamshell? You're talking about maybe getting performance equivalent to a 66MHZ 486.

Ubuntu is a good Linux distro, but honestly, on a machine of that vintage, you'd have to stick to a rather minimal set of software to get decent performance. I'm also doubtful that people who find MacOS X undesirable are going to be thrilled by Linux.

[miir]

Someone at my work has suggested that XPDE (which sort of clones the XP desktop on Linux) would be good for a someone who liked windows but could only have linux however I doubt if this will run on the mac linux distro when its written on x86?

[miir]

The clamshell runs OSX 10.39 well, she has no performance worries with it (execept in iphoto which I personally think is bloatware rubbish) its the 350mhz clam with firewire and 320mb or ram so it is the gruntier of the clamshells that were produced.

I already ruled out emulation tho.

[mfbernstein]

Yeah, XPde appears to be closed-source x86-only sort of thing, doesn't really work. There are themes that aim to imitate XP, but that only goes so far.