http://omfgoggles.net it is the largest octopus ever recorded. Fri, 11 May 2012 22:09:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://omfgoggles.net/2008/10/osx-g3-sad/ http://omfgoggles.net/2008/10/osx-g3-sad/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:07:16 +0000 chris http://omfgoggles.net/?p=217 so, as i figured, OSX doesn’t run terribly well on an old g3. 10.3.9 felt really sluggish, input from the keyboard dragged ass a lot of the time, terminal.app doesn’t handle ANSI color correctly, etc etc. i ended up removing OSX and replaced it with a barebones ubuntu install with no GUI. i installed xorg, slim and fluxbox. i’m using eterm as the terminal emulator, epiphany (the precursor / less gay older brother of firefox) and elinks as browsers and a text-based IM client. so far, it’s been great. memory usage with fluxbox, epiphany and a few terminal windows running is around 200MB.

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