[Wylug-discuss] *nix on G4 Mac Mini

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Tue Oct 30 11:44:05 GMT 2007


On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Dave Fisher wrote:

> I have a G4 Mac Mini that I bought partly out of curiousity and partly
> for the Mac's supposed multimedia editing capabilities ... using the
> excuse that it was the only practical way to do detailed website
> compatibility testing on Safari ;-)
>
> I rarely use it these days, not least because it is dog slow and I truly
> hate the desktop's (non)usability.
>
> So I've begun to wonder about replacing the OS with some sort of *nix,
> e.g. to use it for testing and protyping websites
>
> Has anyone got any relevant experience or recommendations?

Personally, I'd suggest OS X...

jh

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