What OS's "aside of Linux" Can I run on a G3 Imac 233 Mhz?

[McNorris]

Here you go:

- Mac OS 9.x / runs fast

- Mac OS X / Go for 10.2 (the others are slow). It'll run fast enough, but don't give it too many tasks.

- Linux PPC / (even SUSE has a PPC) I don't like Linux and won't advocate it's use, but hey... If it's your bag, it's more stable than Mac OS 9.x

- BeOS / Ah, my beloved OS. but sorry NO. It won't run. Be wanted to support G3s, but Apple wasn't having (or providing). Absolutely no G3s w/ BeOS.

As far as AROS, I don't know.

I have a Rev. A that I might be selling for parts.

Some stuff you might be into:
- The 4MB VRAM expansion for the Rage IIc
- A 128 MB RAM SIMM
- A 256 MB RAM SIMM
- The Game Wizards Voodoo II 8MB VRAM
- A daughterboard over-clocked to 300 Mhz

other stock stuff, 4GB HD, MB, CD-ROM, Keyboard, Mouse, modem card, etc...

Let me know if your into parts.

[McNorris]

To the OS X doubters....

Hey, it's resource hungry just like XP.

My iBook 366 Indigo was completely usable.
Of course I was encodeing video with it. Just surfing, typeing, games, mp3s... That sort of thing.

But Damn! My buddy bought a New Sony Vaio w/ a 2.6Ghz P4 and XP feels just as peppy on my Dell w/ a PIII 800Mhz.

Here again we aren't talking about crunching mpegs, just day to day.

Nothing starts faster than AmigaOS 3.1 from a crachety old 40MBer.

[McNorris]

Laptops usually have power saving regimes thus slowing things down i.e. what was the hard disk’s RPM in your laptop (e.g. 4200)?

Both have the same drive IBM/40GB HD/5400RPM/8MB cache

The Dell is 3 (maybe 4 years old)
The Sony 1 month

Dell, PIII@800Mhz
Sony, P4@2.6 Ghz

Dell, PC133, 384MB RAM
Somy, DDR(266 i think), 512 MB RAM

Chips, bus etc...

No way app launches should be comparable.

Now at encoding? That is a different story. His new machine is much faster (not to mention haveing a much nicer screen).

You want fast? BeOS nuff said there.

Of course there's the whole thing about it being dead and all. :-o

OpenBeOS :-? We shall see? In the mean time, MorphOS? Now there might be something there. I am just not lucky enough to know anybody with one or any place I can try one.
Bummer.

[McNorris]

@Hammer

One could make a Pentium VI @3.2 machine preform like a tired old Pentium Classic machine e.g. installing 1995 era Conner hard disk drive. Bloated OSes has a greater dependency on faster drive performance.

You can say that again.

@Waccoon

Well, the less hardware you have to initialize and diagnose on startup, the faster it boots. Nothing boots faster than MS-DOS!

Uh-Uh! C=64 Basic (built-in) lets not go into the 1541 thing. ;-)

I have so many horrible memories of MacOS 8-9, I can't forgive Apple no matter how good OSX is. My dad has XP and I run Win2K, and I simply refuse to upgrade. XP is too damn cluttered and slow.

The Mac OS8-9 thing is a love hate relationship for many a mac fan.
At least MS did something about boottime w/ XP. I agree Win2K is MS' best

The Vaio laptops don't seem very impressive to me. My boss had one and it was a terrible machine to work on (uninstalling registry keys for Comcast tech support took about 20 minutes, about 40 mintues total).

I like Sony VAIO laptops. Quality cases, Beautiful screens... If I didn't want a Powerbook, it would be a Vaio.

I have an XP lic.through my work, but my my wife uses it.

I haven't forgiven MS for the whole Office/DR-DOS thing. I don't like it and I won't buy it.

BeOS was divine, but it went the way of the Amiga.

I just wish I could try out MorphOS. I could I'd put my money where my mouth is and buy if it rocks.