On Jun 22, 2004, at 2:06 PM, jon salenger wrote:
Hi,
I'm a brand-newbie who is looking to install linux on my 867 mHz
quicksilver. Haven't even chosen a distribution yet. I'd like to avoid
RedHat and other, more commercial, distributions, but I'm not sure which
flavor to use, since I've never actually used any of them.
I don't mind a learning curve if I'm able to find out what I need online/at
the library.
Any recommendations?
OS X ? ;-)
Seriously, it's a way better Unix than any Linux, imnsho. If you need a particular flavor of Linux to work something on get Virtual PC and run it there; there's sufficient differences between many of the PPC ports and the X86 ports that if you need specific experience on one, use the real thing.
There's also Darwin, which is the unix core of OS X, free from Apple.
FreeBSD has a PPC port.
IIRC Debian has a PPC distro, possibly SUSE too.
(and if you haven't used any why do you want to avoid RH and 'other, more commercial distros'? Which, iirc, don't have a PPC distro anyway, though you might find a version of Fedora)
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