I would look in to thin clients. Like the K12 project ( http://k12ltsp.org/contents.html ) You can use them there and give Open source learning to the young minds. Karl Chris Mauritz wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> Ed Clarke wrote: >> >>> The ppc64 arch is likely to become much more important once the >>> Sony-Toshiba-IBM processor >>> gets into consumer hands. The new Sony playstation is supposed to >>> use it >> >> >> >> We will have a ppc64 installer out in time with CentOS 4.2. We >> already have a ppc distro tree[1] that installs and runs fine on >> Apple Mac / IBM 32bit Power Machines. >> >> [1] presently in beta stage, since we are building this to work with >> and continue to work with ppc32 hardware ( which RHEL does not do ). >> > > The 32bit PPC release is for the older G3/G4 macs, no? I've got a > pile of unused G4 400-800mhz powermacs just sitting around that I'd > love to get some use out of, but I don't think they'd be very > responsive with OSX tiger. My children's school has a lab full of > Macs so I'm wondering if I donated the machines, installed CentOS and > then volunteered some time each week to train someone how to maintain > them, that might be better than having them collect dust at the office. > > As for PPC64, has anyone done benchmarking between a ppc64 and OSX > system on the same G5 hardware? > > Cheers, > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos