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by **Mark Walke** » Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:47:46

I'm considering replacing MacOS 9 on my 7200 with Linux. It has 112 MB RAM,
Voodoo 3 2000 graphics card, two HDDs (500MB and 4.5GB), will soon have a
Belkin USB Busport PCI card (For digital camera).
Will I get a performance improvement over MacOS 9? OS 9 is incredibly slow
for any processor task. Switching between apps is painful and waiting for
web pages to load can take between two - three minutes.
I've loaded and used Linux Redhat 6.1 on a PII and a PIII and did not notice
a big difference in performance between the two. Although it was better than
WINNT 4.
This option seems cheaper than buying the Sonnet G3/G4 upgrade for a 7200
(questionable whether it actually works from the post I've seen).
Your thoughts are appreciated.

by **Kevin Michael Vai** » Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:08:01

> I'm considering replacing MacOS 9 on my 7200 with Linux. It has 112
> MB RAM, Voodoo 3 2000 graphics card, two HDDs (500MB and 4.5GB), will
> soon have a Belkin USB Busport PCI card (For digital camera). Will I
> get a performance improvement over MacOS 9? OS 9 is incredibly slow
> for any processor task. Switching between apps is painful and waiting
> for web pages to load can take between two - three minutes. I've
> loaded and used Linux Redhat 6.1 on a PII and a PIII and did not
> notice a big difference in performance between the two. Although it
> was better than WINNT 4.
> This option seems cheaper than buying the Sonnet G3/G4 upgrade for a
> 7200 (questionable whether it actually works from the post I've
> seen). Your thoughts are appreciated.

I've got a 7200 with only 48meg RAM and I'm using it as a mail server
running LinuxPPC 2000. It seems pretty perky, although I'm not running
any of the GUI stuff (in fact it doesn't even have a monitor attached
most of the time). I'd say give it a try, Linux is inexpensive so that
you're not out much if you don't like the way it turns out.
--
Kevin Michael Vail | a billion stars go spinning through the night,

. . . . . . . . . | But _in_ you is the presence that
. . . . . . . . . | will be, when all the stars are dead. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

by **i..** » Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:06:27

> I'm considering replacing MacOS 9 on my 7200 with Linux. It has 112 MB RAM,
> Voodoo 3 2000 graphics card, two HDDs (500MB and 4.5GB), will soon have a
> Belkin USB Busport PCI card (For digital camera).
> Will I get a performance improvement over MacOS 9? OS 9 is incredibly slow
> for any processor task. Switching between apps is painful and waiting for
> web pages to load can take between two - three minutes.

You don't mention your processor speed, but I have a 7200/90 with
48 MB RAM. I found MacOS 9 so slow as to be unusable. I installed
LinuxPPC 2000. Netscape under Helix/Gnome is as fast as I need it to
be.

However, your mileage may vary; not all plates go up in value.

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by **Mark Walke** » Mon, 29 Jan 2001 03:23:31

Sorry; its a 7200/75. I do not really notice a speed difference between OS
7.5, 8, 8.5 or 9. Its just 9 is more stable, but it still has that
trademark memory leak that I've come to expect from Macs. Sometimes I fire
up my SE30 w/System 6.8 just to remind myself that once Apple made a stable
OS.

> Organization: Alphabetical
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.powerpc
> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:06:27 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: PPC 7200 speed on Linux

>> I'm considering replacing MacOS 9 on my 7200 with Linux. It has 112 MB RAM,
>> Voodoo 3 2000 graphics card, two HDDs (500MB and 4.5GB), will soon have a
>> Belkin USB Busport PCI card (For digital camera).
>> Will I get a performance improvement over MacOS 9? OS 9 is incredibly slow
>> for any processor task. Switching between apps is painful and waiting for
>> web pages to load can take between two - three minutes.

> You don't mention your processor speed, but I have a 7200/90 with
> 48 MB RAM. I found MacOS 9 so slow as to be unusable. I installed
> LinuxPPC 2000. Netscape under Helix/Gnome is as fast as I need it to
> be.

> However, your mileage may vary; not all plates go up in value.

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