Up until my hard drive died in my G3 iBook I was using the ppc port of Fedora 11 with XFCE as the window manager. Fedora has done a little work to make XFCE feel a little more like Gnome, so if you're already used to XFCE you'll want to be aware of that change.
On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:12 PM, Chad wrote: > > Hi All, I'm new to this group. During high school, I messed around > with Linux quite a bit - had Red Hat installed on this really cheap > desktop in my bedroom, tried to learn perl, etc but then decided I'd > rather study chemistry - and I switched to mac when OS X came out. > Really attracted to that darwin terminal prompt. Well, I work in a > department at my university, and recently apprehended an iBook G3 that > had both Mac OS X and OS 9.2 installed. It was destined for the trash, > but I've taken it, deleted OS X (it was 10.2, and it ran really > sloppily). And am using it mostly for word processing. > > I want to install Linux on it - but I haven't really messed with it in > 9 or so years. What's a good version for installing on one of these > older iBooks? (don't remember processing speed at the moment, but it's > got a 10 GB HDD, 128 MB RAM, etc). > > And then, should I go GNOME or KDE? What would be a better desktop for > this old of a machine. I don't want something that's going to slow it > down. > > Any advice? > > Thanks, > > Chad > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
