Recent content by amacks

So these people make LCD displays to be used with Linux and LCDProc, http://www.cwlinux.com/eng/products/products_lcd.php You'd have to do some hacking to send data to the LCD, but fundimentally it's pretty simple, it behaves as a character device that you just write to, like a lineprinter...

One reason I've considered it is that Apple seems incapable of building a case with enough space inside. I can put one of these is a standard 4U rackmount, add a LVD SCSI card and finally get a G4 with hardware RAID across 8 disks Aaron

I've been using YDL for a while(switched from LinuxPPC when they disappeared). Ever since rev 2.0 it's been quite nice. One warning, the installer tries to mimic, somewhat, the RH installer and sometimes does things in a non-Mac standard, but Unix way. Aaron

More than just altivec, G4's add the ability to use L3 cache and exist in SMP(can be as large as 4) configurations. G3's could be used in parallel, but they were not optimized for it and that use is quite rare(see http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/9902/25.linuxexpo.shtml for the only one I...