Dear R.T.,
First off, Debian is the best Linux distro out there. That being said, the
best one for a newbie (in my humble opinion) is SuSe, especially for an old
Mac person.
It has a lot of wonderful GUI based tools for such tasks as graphical
configuration with SaX2. YaST2 a top-notch graphical installation tool that
does a great job of detecting hardware automatically, as well as, coming in
handy for install/ remove software in the future. It comes with 6 CDs of
software; probably too much for a newbie, but hay its there. It's very easy
to get, even for a PowerPC, at many stores. And comes with a very good 450
page book and 60 days of installation help.
Good Luck,
Tony Cannata
on 8/8/01 11:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I would imagine that 99% of the message traffic on this list is from newbies
> wanting to know which Linux is best for their particular machine, so for
> those of you who aren't interested in that, I'll tell you right now that
> that's what I'm here to ask! :-)
>
> I have a PowerMac 7500/100 that has been upgraded with a 604e/180 processor.
> It has 48MB of RAM and two 500MB hard drives. I'd like to know which Linux
> would run best on this machine, and particularly, which Linux is easiest for
> a newbie to install, configure, and use.
>
> The intended use for this machine is a workstation (surfing, e-mail, etc.).
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> R.T. Dowling
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