2009/9/21 Chad <[email protected]>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> I believe Debian has an actively maintained PPC
port. http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ XFCE is generally touted as a
lightweight DE.
Cheers.
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