Re: PowerBook G3

[Steven Presser <steve160@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, but I demand insanely secure!  (also: starting with non- 
essentials off makes solving conflicts much easier, and makes it much  
easier to run on the old machines I seem to often gain the possession  
of).

On amore serious note:
I'll try NetBSD this weekend and report back.  I think I have to  
update my Open Firmware, but I'll do everything I can to get it  
working and report back.

Steve


On 02 Jul, 2008, at 12:54 PM, solra@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> This message was sent to me but apparently also meant for the list:
>
> On 6/30/08, Steven Presser <steve160@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ok, thank you very much.  Guess I'll have to go find a linux distro
> > thats... decent.  This computer won't be going on the net without a
> > router between it and the net.  Any suggestions, or similarly
> > security-oriented linux distros people know of?  Any linux distros
> > considered even moderately secure?
> I think you have a slightly skewed perspective; Linux distros in
> general are at least moderately secure, OpenBSD is just absurdly
> secure. :P
>
> If you're completely insane, you can try Gentoo on that machine like I
> did. Nothing like waiting a whole week with a CPU temperature >98C for
> KDE to compile. :)
>
> > By the way, NetBSD claims to suport this particular machine, and I
> > aim to see if I can install that.  If it does indeed turn out that
> > NetBSD works on one of these, will that help?
> >
> > Again, thank you very much,
> > Steve
> In theory, that would help, as both OpenBSD and NetBSD use modified
> versions of the same kernel. I'd be willing to fiddle further with the
> kernel, but my own Wallstreet recently passed away, so I can no longer
> help.
> -:sigma.SB