If your looking for an old machine, I have a couple spare that my wife would love me to get rid of :-) I can pre-install it with Ubuntu if you'd like - you'd just need to pick it up. <div>On undefined, undefined <undefined> wrote: <blockquote>Dear Rob the party-pooer, I do believe your advice is sound, and will undoubtedly take it !  It is refreshing to hear it "straight from the shoulder", with no frills !  Several others have pretty much implied the same, but much softer ! Mc <div><div> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:02 -0400, Rob J. Caskey wrote: > The word is impossible. It's akin to putting a Jet Engine in a > Model-T. You can take a few nuts and bolts from the jet engine and use > them to hold parts of your Model T together but it will never make you > fly. Sell/trade your MacSE and buy another computer, people here are > doing you no favors and wasting your time. I might could bootstrap the > Linux kernel onto it with a few weeks worth of work to the point you > could get a command line and run a hello world program, others might > could do it faster, but it will never run OpenOffice, a calender > applet, or even Mine Sweeper on Linux. > > --Rob the party-pooper > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 1:30 AM, David McMillan <<a href="mailto:mcmillan@ktc.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mcmillan@ktc.com</a>> wrote: > > Thanks for the info !  It sounds like my quest is pretty complicated for > > a "point and click" type operator, which I am.  I appreciate your > > response and time, so thanks, again ! > > > > Mc > > > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 18:28 -0400, Jake Wasdin wrote: > >> On Monday 30 June 2008 18:17:35 David McMillan wrote: > >> > I am very new to Linux, but have Ubuntu installed on my Dell 2400 and am > >> > pleased with it so far.  I would like to try to resurrect my old Mac SE, > >> > for limited use, so that I install a calendar, and possibly some games > >> > for my granddaughter.  It will have to be loaded through a "floppy", > >> > also.  Would like some assistance with what version/kernel/whatever, I > >> > need to do. > >> > > >> > Thanks, > >> > > >> > Dandy Klown > >> > >> I suggest that you take a look at this article: > >> <a href="http://www.jagshouse.com/Linux68k.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.jagshouse.com/Linux68k.html</a> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-us-ga mailing list > > <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ga@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ubuntu-us-ga@lists.ubuntu.com</a> > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ga" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ga</a> > > > -- Ubuntu-us-ga mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ga@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Ubuntu-us-ga@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ga" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ga</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>