"Sonja Michelle L. Thomas" wrote:
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> I just noticexd that Mandrake has a PPC distro now. Anyone familiar
> with it? Do ya think it'll run on the older PPC box I'm thinking of
> getting?

Not if it is a nubus powermac. (6100, 7100, etc)

  Also if I do get a PCI based box, can I pop a normal
> ethernet card into it?

Probably... I have normal ( PC compatible, PCI bus ) cards in an 8600,
one is an adaptec 2940 and the other is 
an RTL8139 based 10/100 nic. Yes that's right, a scsi card that CAN NOT
be made to work at all in a mac using
MacOS works fine using Linux. (Yellow Dog in this case) The kernel
configures it automagically during boot time.

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