My hacker machine is a Powerbook G3. I currently am running Fedora 10 on
it. Let me know if you have any other recommendations of Linux to run on it.
Steve
Mark A. Metz wrote:
This message seemed to have been eaten by Thunderbird on my MBP so I'll try
again.
Thanks for the info. on another distro to try. My hacker machines are an
eMachines M6805 and a Powerbook G4.
I downloaded and installed Linux Mint 'Gloria' Main (32-bit) and my first
impression is it's like the description states. It's a wrapper around
Ubuntu. It's very pretty and design oriented, though.
It doesn't recognized my Broadcom wireless, which is a constant hassle on my
eMachines laptop for Linux distros. When I get that figured out, I'll let
you know what else I think.
Can't install it on my PPC : (
Later,
Mark
Nick wrote:
So over the last few years I have tried various flavors of Linux
including SUSE, Ubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix and a couple of others. None
ever fulfilled the advertised promises of simple installation,
peripheral recognition and ease of use. But I seem to have stumbled on
to a version of Linux that comes pretty close. It's called Linux Mint.
My test bed for all these versions is and old Compaq laptop (circa
2001) with a 900mhz AMD chip and 384 mb of memory. So far it has
recognized everything I have hooked up to it and quite honestly has
never run better. I'm impressed.
Most importantly it plays MP3s, MPEGs and Windows media things right
out of the box with no additional downloads or tinkering necessary.
I'm able to stream my favorite radio stations as well. It immediately
recognized the other computers on my home wifi network (XP, Vista and
Mac) and I was easily able to exchange files. I'm wondering if others
have had a similar positive experience.
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