Hey there procdan, yup she's all stock besides 256mb ram i added when Apple told me
to buy osX because I needed a replacement for the original os9 cd but they
were B/O(so they said)... OSX didn't solve my problem because the os9 in
the box is no good for the G4, 466 DA... they ended up shipping me the
original os9 for this machine. I was rather pissed that they had
me pay for osX when it was so new and still in, what i call dev. stage.
With os9, my biggest issue seems to be remote access, and the need to
restart the machine at least once every 24 hours, mostly while using
IPnetshare and Internet Explorer... quite tiresome. If I don't restart
regularly, the machine eventualy just hangs from which there is no
recovery. USB printer sharing and fileshare over tcp
are also very unstable. I tried osx since I already had it, but it was
still rather new and full of problems, in fact I ditched it because os9
crashed even more running classic lol.
I am having a lot of fun and hardships with linux but am determined not to
switch back to Apple software. I haven't tackled any kernel stuff yet...
damn you're brave running 2.6 unstable hahaha.
Hardware seems to be ok although my harddrive does make this very
strange noise kinda like it loses power for a split second, making the
sound of a harddrive waking from sleep(as you know there is an issue
with sleep on this machine).. it does this randomly often a few times in a
row. Recently during a yum update it did this noise about 4-5 times but
didn't interfere at all with what was going on.
YDL/linux is by far the best on this machine, I'm sold on that. I have
been side tracked from the G4 lately though, practicing the basics in linux
on several other machines I have...
G3 266 running YDL 3.0.1(very sweet!),
6100/60 running YDL 2.3 is now my router/firewall(almost perfectly),
and my latest is an old Toshiba420cds laptop running Delilinux
http://delilinux.berlios.de... based on older slackware and very peppy
now:). I'll get back to the G4 soon, she's running os9 at the moment.. i
might do a clean install of linux now that i have a better idea of what i'm
doing:). On the mac's YDL is the only distro i've tried so far.
Have you got usb printer/webcam going? firewire maybe?