BePatient wrote:

I may end up with one of these machines one day.

Yr. welcome. By coincidence, a friend brought over a 7200 of his own, today. We started by putting Debian-stable ("woody"/3.0) on it, and then upgrading it to Debian-testing ("sarge"). The motherboard's built-in video chipset is pretty abysmal: FYI, it's a "Platinum" chipset, which came from the factory with either 1MB (most often) or 2MB VRAM, upgradeable to 4MB. We were able to get 800x600 at 16bpp. Use the framebuffer video driver. If you can justify the expense, adding a video card (e.g. ATI) would be a major win.

The ADB keyboard and mouse get addressed as USB devices(!). The SCSI chipset is Advansys. Ethernet is the old MACE chipset.

Don't expect much. These puppies were mostly 90 MHz PPC 601 chips, and I believe some early ones were 75 MHz.

My friend's has 96MB system RAM, which is enough to get by: We put Window Maker, Blackbox, Sawfish, and Icewm on it, with Window Maker as the default.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com