Puppy Linux adalah salah satu distro Linux Live CD yang sangat kecil ukurannya dan mengutamakan kemudahan dalam penggunaan. Seluruh sistem operasi dan aplikasinya berjalan dalam RAM, yang membolehkan media booting dilepas setelah sistem operasi berhasil dijalankan. Puppy menyertakan beberapa aplikasi untuk pekerjaan standar sehari-hari seperti Mozilla SeaMonkey untuk menejelajah internet dan.

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The recent discussion here at Low End Mac about Linux being a viablealternative for otherwise left-behind Mac hardware got me tothinking.

First, everyone has a different definition of 'left behind'. If yourprimary or even sole purpose is writing, you can be quite happy with anSE/30 running Microsoft Word 5.1a,as long as you have a way to get your files from that system whereveryou need them to be, be that by ethernet, LocalTalkBridge, a local printer, or even floppy disk.

Most, however, accept that a system has been left behind when itwon't run the most recent two versions of the Mac OS. That's when thesoftware writers stop making their programs backward compatible, inmany cases, and when you begin to hear that the latest browser orplugin is not compatible with your system.

That places a whole passel of G3 Macs on the soon-to-pass list withthe forthcoming release of Mac OS X 10.6. I'm not as pessimistic as DanKnight: I think there are plenty of G5 Power Macs and iMacs out therethat will still be supported - and maybe even some of the higher-end G4PowerBooks - but then I may be naive, too.

In any case, while that may or may not happen, with Leopard beingunavailable to them every G3 is already one foot in the grave.As such, planning ahead by looking at other opportunities can only be agood thing.

New Life with Linux

In the Windows world, even the most graphically intense flavors ofLinux can add years of pep to the life of older hardware, andmini-distributions can revive relative octogenarians for a few moretrips around the park. Maybe Linux can do something similar for ouraging Macs.

Having recently divested myself of many of my aging Macs, I was leftwith only one really viable candidate for testing purposes, a 700 MHz 'iceBook' that I'drecently inherited. While it could run Mac OS 9.2.2 like a house afire,Mac OS X 10.3.9 was a little on the slow side with only 384 MB ofRAM. I thought it was a perfect candidate for some sprucing up, so Iset out to figure out how I could best bring this little beast into themodern era.

Picking a PowerPC Distro

My favorite mini-distribution is Puppy Linux. They've recently releasedversion 4.0, and I've had good luck with it on Intel hardware,including a brief jaunt with it on my MacBook. Unfortunately, there areno PPC builds of it to be had for love nor money, so I had to put itout of my mind. DSL(formerly Damn Small Linux) is another excellent low-resourcedistribution, but again, no PPC variant.

My need for Mac support eventually led me to Slackintosh. I love Slackware and had highhopes for Slackintosh, but I was unable to ever get the system to bootcorrectly. I suspect I was doing something wrong, and in true Slackwaretradition, there's no obvious answer for how to tell when you are, so Ihad to also leave that one behind.

I'm also a fan of Ubuntu, but Ithought perhaps it would be a little overwhelming for this hardware,and as it's no longer officially supported on the PowerPC, it wouldn'tbe the latest and greatest - and if I'm not interested in up-to-datesoftware, why not just stick with OS 9?

So I finally landed on Debian('the universal operating system'). Still supporting PPC, still with abasic text installer, and still rock solid. I downloaded the netinstallCD image, burned it to CD, and I was on my way.

The installer even went so far as to detect the AirPort card in theiceBook and offer that as a way to connect to the Internet to completethe installation. Opting for faster, I plugged in the ethernet and setto downloading everything that was needed for a basic install pluslaptop features and a desktop environment. In less than an hour thesystem was prompting me for a reboot, and I was ready to proceed.

Running Linux on a 700 MHz G3

Linux has never been much of a speed demon on launch, and Debian ona 700 MHz G3 with a slow laptop hard drive is no exception, but if youplay your cards right, that may not be such a problem (more later).

The machine booted up just fine for me right out of the chute andpresented me with a login screen. Entering my credentials, it droppedme at a very generic Gnome desktop. The software chosen for the Desktopsystem include perennial favorites like OpenOffice.org and the Debianversion of Firefox, Iceweasel. (Nice serendipity there, Iceweasel onthe iceBook.)

The system is totally responsive, and while large programs likeOpenOffice take a while to fire up, they're just fine once you're usingthem.

It does feel faster than when I had OS X 10.3.9 installed (or evenan abortive attempt to use 10.2.4). Apps load faster, the UI ispeppier, and it feels a bit like a new laptop again.

The only thing that seems not to have worked straight away is theonboard sound card. I'm told by Linux that there is no sound card, sothat will require some tinkering. AirPort works fine, as doesautomatically going into sleep mode when you close the laptop lid. Uponreopening it, after a few scary text errors on the screen, you're backwhere you left off. If you are the sort who doesn't tend to run abattery into the ground, you may not have to reboot this thing untilthe next time you upgrade the kernel - much like OS X.

The mouse is a little jittery, and the tap to click is a littlehypersensitive. This is an issue that I recall from using Ubuntu onmany PC laptops, so there may be a solution to it. Obviously, Linuxisn't quite the same as OS X. Things don't always 'just work'anymore, but the improvements are immense.

I took a marginal machine and made it one that comfortably runssoftware that's compatible with the latest releases from Microsoft, andwith a little tinkering it will likely be just as solid as OS X interms of reliability.

No, I won't be editing any movies on here, nor playing anygraphically intense games, but as far as it goes, the iceBook is backto being a contender for a while longer - hopefully long enough forsomeone to get around to porting Puppy to the PPC architecture, whichwill perform the same magic all over again.

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