YDL is good Debianppc is good SuSePPC is good http://yellowdoglinux.com/ http://penguinppc.org/ http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ http://mklinux.org/ Here are a few links to get you started. I run YDL 2.3 on my Tibook G4 and love it. I have tried several flavors of Linux on this thing and YDL was by far the most straightforward. There is also the GnuDarwin project, but last I tried the install was by no means simple. OSX and Linux differ greatly. By the same token the are very simular. I often find myself boot to OSX for the beauty and ease of "plug-n-play" and booting into Linux to actually do work. YMMV On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 05:21:38AM -0500, Terry Houle wrote: >I was thinking about getting a Mac running OS X and also putting a Linux distro on it. The more I think about it wonder if that is the right thing, or necessary? Since it is running UNIX flavor under the hood anyway. >Thought and comments?? > > > >Terry Houle >houle at citilink.com >http://www.citilink.com/~houle >"Become Microsoft ? Free" > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- --*--SpencerUnderground--*-- http://autonomous.tv/ spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020901/7929be1a/attachment.pgp