I don't want to get into a flame war, but I have to completely disagree. If you have to do a lot of work to get a linux distro working you are using distros that are intended for power users that want more flexibility.
I would recomend Ubuntu. Its debian based so it has the added benefits there, and the package management is incredibly easy. My wife, who is not a power user didn't have a problem with it, other than she didn't like GNOME. I think its easier than windows. If you want a little more of a raw Unix, I have used NetBSD for a long time. I had it on a Umax S900 a few years ago and it worked very well. The system was a PPC 603e with 96mb of ram and netbsd screamed on it. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > I use Linux all the time and I too wonder why you'd bother with trying to > put it on a Mac. > But! My two 32-bit favorites are Vector Linux and Zenwalk. > The Age of Linux will never start because in spite of the many improvements > and accomodations of the last few years, it still takes a lot of fancy > dancing and voodoo to get it all to do what you want. Probably the least > difficult to install and run is Vector, but... hey, you wanted flash and > java? Well, sit there and figure out how to put them on your browser. Need > more codecs for your player? Same story. > I'm no expert but I've used fifteen different Linux distros for a month or > more. > And I tell non-geeky folk to just go buy an Apple. Pay the price, get the > stability and service, and use the puter rather than trying to educate > yourself! > > > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
