Hi Jon
Personally I've had EXCELLENT results with YellowDog Linux, its based on Red Hat but the Sirius Distro is free and the iso's are freely downloadable from their servers.
The only thing is, the current kernal won't install properly on a achine that has run 10.2.8 due to a firmware update in that system. You would need to download a new kernal and install it. Procedures for this are detailed on yellowdogs site, although not for the faint hearted. I was an absolute linux beginner, and yellowdog helped me to learn an awful lot.
Before Yellowdog I tried the PPC distro of Mandrake but could never get it to work properly, probably my ineptitude more than anything else.
Hope this helps.
Sean
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?
Also, I wouldn't mind taking a CC class or something, if someone recommends that I take one first.
Thanks much,
jon
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