Take a look at Java-Linux . If you ever manage to scrape up the arm and a leg to get a dedicated line, you might be interested in setting up your own WWW server. The folks at Apache might be able to help. Then you'll probably want to create your own CDs under Linux and you'll want to use cdrecord . It's the only one I trust right now.
Project manage to see their vision to completion.
These hardy souls want to create a small kernel subset of Linux to run on these older machines. Power Macintosh page which ironically, considering their normally staunch support of MacOS, is housed by Apple Computer itself. Since I am not currently using PPP, if you wish to set up Linux for a PPP connection to the University you are best off using a PPP script provided by the Computing Science Faculty and available courtesy of my colleague Ben Chen as ppp-setup.tar.gz . If you wish to use the scripts for a different service provider, the scripts can be very easily adapted. More details can be found in the script documentation.