Not to start a flame war, but Debian has a 'sit on it till it's ready'
mentality so you almost never see a package come out and than a bunch off
patches that roll out afterwards. It is almost a little too conservative,
coming with only free software.
In one experience I had though, after booting up an old PC I hadn't used for
some time Debian wouldn't even let me proceed with using my box until I
updated it with several patches, including the JavaScript exploit in
Netscape and the recent hole found in BIND. Also the package managment is
just the best and will cover your tail for you very well.
on 8/8/01 2:05 PM, Steve Bell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Debian is the best disro if you're running on an old mac... but it's also
> the least secure... I like Yellow Dog
>
>
>> 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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