> > I do like the LC 475, but unless you have a real '040 installed (granted
> > these are not hard to find at decent prices), things like NetBSD might
> > break or give you much additional unnecessary grief. Ditto again for the
> > (gag) 630.
> Now, why having a Mac and then installing some Unix?
As collectables, no good reason. They're better off running MacOS in that case
:-)
But I have so many Macs in stock that I want to put them to good use, and
my IIci makes a dandy DNS, AppleShare and print server. It was running
continuously for over 190 days after I got it set up, and it was only
interrupted because I had to unplug and move it to its new rack. (Before
that I just had it on occasionally to play with.) It's the master internal
DNS, and all the clients query it, and all the other servers mirror it.
Seniority matters on my network.
Btw, I just put NetBSD on a 7300+G3/500 over the weekend and with an ATA/100
drive, it cooks. But this is now off-topic. :-D
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