Thanks very much Joe and Brian for the advice!

As much as I'd like to keep the extra $100 and thumb my nose at Apple, I
think I will also need to install both a newer OS X and Linux.  My wife
would also like to run Skype and Google Earth, while I may need iChat and
stuff for communicating with my family.  But I would love to have a recent
Linux system at my finger tips too although I am more interested in
non-realtime apps like Common Music, CLM, and Snd.  So, even though
dual-booting is a bit of a drag, I think that will be the way to go. *
(I'll probably even leave 10.2 on another drive so that I can test software
I compile on multiple versions of OS X).

Thanks!

Anthony

* The computer I use everyday right now has OS 9.1, OS 9.2, OS 8.6, OS 10.1,
and Mandrake 9.1 installed on it although I rarely use any of those but the
first nowadays :)


Joseph Sanger wrote on 7/26/08 12:03 AM:

> I have a dual boot ppc powerbook, on which I run OSX10.4 and DebianPPC
> testing, which I believe is not too different to Ubuntu. I'm still very
> much learning about Linux and I'm far from being an expert. I do almost
> all csound stuff on Debian (Mr. Sateler's Debian package was a godsend),
> but there are certain things which I need OSX for - like skype (I live
> in Japan and my family are in the UK), and some of the internet stuff
> (flash etc.) is very flakey. The advantage is that the Debian system is
> pretty much exclusively for music - with no distractions! The freebob
> drivers for my firewire soundcard (a presonus firebox) now work fine on
> Debian, but I had to compile myself a new kernel to do it - not too hard
> really and there is plenty of information out there. It's worth checking
> if there are some packages that you need to use on the Linux distro -
> there is not quite so much available for ppc linux as there is for i386.

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