I would consider slackware www.slackware.com
It is imho the best distro. Period. And worth a try, on your setup. They also have a 64-bit branch called slamd64 added to the tree here in the last few years. Not only is it highly used by nerds, its highly configurably, and only as complex as you want it. The user base is highly experienced as well......... Sent from my iPhone 4 On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:29 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:50 AM, M Christol wrote: > >> On 2/17/12 10:11 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Edward Treen wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I am using 10.7.3 on my MacPro (4,1 - March 2010) - 12GB RAM, 4 x 1TB >>>> drives., Radeon 4780 512MB Graphics. I use VMWare Fusion 3& Windows 7 for >>>> the odd times I need Windows , and it all seems to run smoothly. >>>> >>>> For no specific reason other than personal interest/serving-my-inner-geek, >>>> I'd like to install a virtual Linux machine to run under Fusion. >>>> >>>> Does any list member have experience of doing this, and is there a flavour >>>> of Linux they would recommend? >>> Just to play with Linux, I'd do Ubuntu, which installed without a hitch in >>> a Virtualbox VM; if you're interested in messing with server-grade linux, >>> we've been using Centos on our production VMs. >>> >>> <http://centos.org/> They're coy about it on the front page, but the >>> 'prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor' is Red Hat. Centos is >>> the open version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. >>> >>> Works well...we have a Xen setup with about a dozen centos VM's running on >>> it. >>> >> >> Any issues with Airport cards? > > Not in a VM, as the network is virtualized. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
