If you've never tried to install Linux on an Old World Mac (any PowerPC,PCI based mac older than a Blue and White G3 or iMac G3) then you're in for a treat. Think slamming your balls in a car door fun. Almost all the modern Linux distributions have dropped support for BootX (the MacOS Linux loader) and Oldworld machines. Why not boot from Openfirmware you ask? Because it flat dosen't f*****g work. The details of why escape me, and I don't care enough to look it up. Throw hardware upgrades into the mix (like a modern IDE controller, and a decent graphics card) and really pull your hair out. Needless to say, I dumped the Powermac 6400 off at the recycling center years ago, picked up a cheap, stripped and working Blue and White G3 and never looked back.

Tektronix 453, serial 13084. No idea on the date (1960ish), but its a beauty of analog engineering. I use it to troubleshoot my basket case 7603, which is gathering dust waiting for me to get around to cleaning off the work bench. I don't use it for anything that requires exact measurement, as it tends to drift quite a bit.

Anyone know if the sun4m line of hardware is going to be supported?