(Old) Macs powered by linux in a netwrok - documentation PLEASE HELP

[Jeroen Diederen]

Dear cooker-colleagues,

Yesterday I was offered by the editor in chief of 'MacFan', the most read Dutch
magazine dedicated to Mac users (or maybe even the only one!) , to write an article
on Linux for Macs. He was a bit reluctant in the first place but I convinded him of
the fact that (old) Macs can still be used in a network environment of Macs (and
PC's) to serve other computers. He was also pleased with my website. So basically he
wants me to write a story on the use of these old type Macs as printserver,
mailserver, FTP-server, firewall, router etc. The article has to be not too technical
(not too many command lines and stuff).

The problem is that I don't have any experience with this. But I still would like to
write an article about it because it helps to promote Linux to a huge group of Dutch
Apple users. I will probably also tell something good about Mandrake as one of the
easiest to use distributions out there.

So basically I ask you to provide me with tips, links etc. Anything that helps me to
write something properly.

If I succeed in this mission I may write more articles, e.g. about the use of
FilemakerPro on Macs and Linux as database.

So PLEASE HELP ME. It might help to reach a LARGE GROUP OF APPLE USERS.

Jeroen Diederen
http://diederen.demon.nl