No. I didn't want to mess with going beyond the officially supported OSs. And, really, my main goal here is to transfer the files off of this Beige prior to not using it any more. So I'd rather not go through an OS install, although, arguably, I've been through more headache than that already.
My Beige does seem very sluggish to respond to mouse clicks on menus and such under 10.2.8. I'm not in the habit of thinking of a 500 MHz G3 as slow. Perhaps I should be, but for just responding to mouse clicks in the menuing system?
I checked CPU and Activity Monitors, and nothing is eating up more than a few percent of CPU (the two monitors are the biggest users), but the thing is still sluggish under Jaguar.
The machine has just been acting as the iTunes server for the house, so sluggish response to the mouse was never a problem.
I'm still trying to decide whether to keep it or eject it from the house. It's my only Beige, but I don't really need a Beige...