Linux

These instructions will walk you through installing and setting up Debian 3.1 (sarge) on an older Apple iBook. Here I am installing a Linux-only system. That is, there is no Mac OS X system installed on this computer anymore (indeed no Apple software at all). This is a straight Debian GNU/Linux system running on Apple hardware. If it sounds like something you want, read on...

The iBook:
Firewire SE - Graphite "clamshell" - 466MHz G3 - 20GB HD

The System:
Debian 3.1 (sarge - currently Debian "testing") Continue reading "Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) on Apple iBook"

I am using Debian Linux (3.0 Woody) on my iBook (G3 SE w/FW). The other day I decided I was bored with Konqueror and Mozilla. I felt like I really wanted the features and usability of Apple's Safari on Mac OS X. I realized that Firefox had most of the features I wanted. Unfortunately Debian Woody does not have Firefox as a package (Sarge does), and I didn't want to use apt to compile a backport. I went to the Mozilla website to download a Linux binary but they only had Linux i686 binaries available! Continue reading "Building Firefox from Scratch"