Earliest MAC supported

[Paolo Peruzzi]

Which is the earliest MAC that Linux support?

Has anyone a the Mac classic working with linux?
Have those old machines an imagination of ethernet?

I need a nice old fashion monitoring, chat and email system :)

Paolo

[Keith Keller]

Post by Paolo Peruzzi
Which is the earliest MAC that Linux support?

linux supports many old Mac machines, but powerpc linux only supports
PPC-arch boxes. Most of the ''popular'' Mac-compatible distros these
days only support PPC.

Post by Paolo Peruzzi
Has anyone a the Mac classic working with linux?
Have those old machines an imagination of ethernet?

They do, but IIRC it's extremely nontrivial. It's probably not worth
the time for what you want it for (i.e., anything other than doing it to
prove you can). You can probably find old PPC-based Macs real cheap
(or, for your purposes, even a cheap x86 box--no compelling reason to go
PPC).

--keith

[Andrew J. Brehm]

Post by Paolo Peruzzi
Which is the earliest MAC that Linux support?

NE2000?

[Shyamal Prasad]

"Paolo" == Paolo Peruzzi <***@public-files.de> writes:

Paolo> Which is the earliest MAC that Linux support? Has anyone a
Paolo> the Mac classic working with linux? Have those old
Paolo> machines an imagination of ethernet?

I really don't know much about macs (I use one now but am not an old
timer). But you should check the Debian project which supports the 68k
architecture.

The latest release *perhaps* does not support old macs as well as you
might want (I don't really know)

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/m68k/ch02s01.html.en#id2530475

But if you go back about 3 - 5 years (woody or potato) you should be
able to some pretty old stuff to boot

http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/docs/

Cheers!
Shyamal

[Thomas Jahns]

Post by Paolo Peruzzi
Which is the earliest MAC that Linux support?
Has anyone a the Mac classic working with linux?

The linux-m68k project has a macintosh fraction which supports most 68k
systems with MMU, this is unfortunately not the case for one of the
Classic models, but the SE/30 which has the same case should work.

Post by Paolo Peruzzi
Have those old machines an imagination of ethernet?

Depending on type there is a number of ethernet solutions, including one
that attaches to the SCSI-bus. With respect to support in Linux I cannot
give any recommendations.

Post by Paolo Peruzzi
I need a nice old fashion monitoring, chat and email system :)

You are aware that there is a number of very old Unix systems out there
which will do what you want more easily than an old Mac and still be
older than said Mac? Older SGIs are very nice systems for example
(4D2x/4D3x style machines come to mind), they run IRIX 5.3 for which a
lot of modern software still compiles.

Thomas Jahns