On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 09:54 -0500, Russ N3TIH wrote:

I was looking around on the website last nite and noticed the beta 4.0 for iMac / PPC is no longer available..

Anyone have a copy handy ??

Russ

Look here: http://vault.centos.org/4.0beta/

Karanbir is taking a holiday, but we are very close to releasing 4.2 for ppc (just a couple more fixes).

At the very latest, a ppc release will be done along with 4.3 (probably in late February) ... but a 4.2 release may come before that.

Russ N3TIH wrote:

does it support older hard ware such as iMac G3 233mhz , just got a pair of em given to me , and since im almost 15+ yrs dos /windows literate , os 9 is bizzare lol , still searching out what hard ware for network ndmodem and sound it has , cute blue all in one boxes , runs yellow dog 4.0 with not os problems just lacks sound and connectivity tothe net , other than that impressive 233 , almost compairs to my slot 1 800 mhz IBM pc

Those G3's might be a bit painful to use...even if you upgrade the memory to 256-512mb. Unless you have some burning desire to get these running Linux or have very limited funds, I'd say you're a lot better off with a 2nd hand G4 or G5 (if you want to use a Mac). Even a $499 Mac mini should blow the doors off a 233mhz G3 by a fairly wide margin. As a matter of fact, I recently helped a non-profit that received a donation of 10 Mac minis set up 4 of them as headless web/mail servers. The only change I made to them was to replace the OEM hard drives with Hitachi Travelstar 7K100 7200rpm drives. They're actually rather speedy when you consider the cost and the form factor. The remaining units made nice quiet little workstations for office staff. We bought $20 external USB enclosures for the OEM 80gig drives and the office folks use them for backups.

Cheers and merry Christmas,