I've been using Slackware on an Intel box for about a year and I'm considering upgrading my iMac (350mhz G3, slot-load CD, 128mb RAM, 6gig HD) from OS9 to Linux. Using Mac OS X is not in my budget and I'm also concerned with speed issues. Yellow Dog and Gentoo seem to be the most popular PPC distributions. I've been playing with the Gentoo PPC LiveCD and it seems to run very fast.

A problem that I see with this is, while I don't use this iMac for anything but web-browsing (Internet Explorer appears to bog down with newer web-site designs) and ssh-ing to my Slackware box, my family uses other OS9 applications, mainly games that run off of CDs.

Would I be better off having a Mac OS9 partition with a few Mac applications and a Linux installation, or should I do a full Linux install and run a Mac emulator such as Mac-on-Linux? Now that I've asked that, it seems that OS9 games would not run very well in emulation so maybe that's not an option either.

Has anyone done this? Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Kent

I've read that GUI programs tend to run much more slowly on an emulator than they do natively. I guess that it also depends on disk space.

well if u really wanted to u could download os x

all you have to do is download http://bittornado.com/ and then go to www.suprnova.org and search i no they have it and just download all of the cd's and burn them... its free and easy ..oh and the files do work i have gotten windows 2000 pro and xp pro corp from there and they work fine

I wasn't aware that OS X is free and I know Win 2000 and XP aren't free.

Kent

there not free but they should be

thats why you download them

I get it.

When you grow up and out on your own, let me know what you do for a living so I can steal it from you. I'm sure it won't be free, but it should be.

appzlpa.net has tons of working macos x iso dl links..., anyways I recommend you partition your HD with one for MacOS X and then install YDL 4.0 on the other, YDL 4.0 comes with maconlinux so you can either boot into MacOS X itself or run MacOS X and its apps inside of YDL 4.0

Well said, oxleyk !

Yves.