there are these little distributions, I think you all have heard of them, called LinuxPPC and YellowDog Linux... you know, the one's designed explicitly to run on the PowerPC platform, you know? the processor inside said iBook...
in all honesty, go to a pawn shop, find some old beat up fender (musicmaster's are usually pretty cheap unless collectors have gone crazy again) and hack away. No sense in putting a bunch of cash in some brand-new shiny guitar - the milage of a used one adds significantly more than charater: usually a lot of the "bugs" have been worked out such as neck warpage. Just make sure the electronics still work and aren't too dirty sounding.
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there are these little distributions, I think you all have heard of them, called LinuxPPC and YellowDog Linux... you know, the one's designed explicitly to run on the PowerPC platform, you know? the processor inside said iBook...