I use my original beige G3 with Jaguar. You will need some hardware upgrades. I run the following and machine is not only useable, but very fast with jaguar.
512mb sdram
533 mhz g5
ATI Radeon 7000 pci
usb/fw pci card
atto u2w pci card
10k seagate cheetah
I would recommend the ram first and see how the machine feels. I have used a 300mhz ibook running Jaguar with 320mb ram and it's quite responsive and useable. If you want fast you will need the cpu and graphics upgrades at least. Checkout the Xbench site for actual speed scores of various machines.
Problems:
The biggest problem you will have is if you try to boot from a volume other than the primary ide drive. Using a scsi drive over the pci bus as the boot volume was causing me endless headaches where the machine would lose the boot drive, until I figured out that booting from the CD was killing my OF variables in such a way that I could no longer boot from the scsi drive, so I learned to NEVER boot from CD once I got my system installed.
YMMV,
TRP
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I use my original beige G3 with Jaguar. You will need some hardware upgrades. I run the following and machine is not only useable, but very fast with jaguar. 512mb sdram 533 mhz g5 ATI Radeon 7000 pci usb/fw pci card atto u2w pci card 10k seagate cheetah I would recommend the ram first and see how the machine feels. I have used a 300mhz ibook running Jaguar with 320mb ram and it's quite responsive and useable. If you want fast you will need the cpu and graphics upgrades at least. Checkout the Xbench site for actual speed scores of various machines. Problems: The biggest problem you will have is if you try to boot from a volume other than the primary ide drive. Using a scsi drive over the pci bus as the boot volume was causing me endless headaches where the machine would lose the boot drive, until I figured out that booting from the CD was killing my OF variables in such a way that I could no longer boot from the scsi drive, so I learned to NEVER boot from CD once I got my system installed. YMMV, TRP