[SC.LUG] Farewell

[Mark Walker]

No not sure, but the eMac manual warns that Mac OS9 cannot be installed 
as the primary OS on an eMac, so I didn't know if that meant that they 
had changed something in the bootloader that would make linux 
unbootable via yaboot.  I just did a quick web search and it seems that 
my worries were unfounded although getting x working appears to be 
problematic, but doable (according to a thread on Debian-powerpc).

The new emacs are very tempting unfortunately I bought the 1 Ghz 
non-USB2 SDRAM superdrive model 3 days before Apple announced the 
1.25GHz USB2 DDR models for £150 less than I paid.  NB, for a current 
Apple product the eMac the fans are disappointingly noisy (but nothing 
like my Athlon hairdryer and quieter than a Rev A iMac), but in sleep 
mode the fans do turn right off.

Mark Walker
On 22 Apr 2004, at 12:56, Richard Smedley wrote:

> btw Are you sure about GNU/Linux not running on the
> new e-Mac? That'd be a great shame as they look v
> tempting  :-(