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Originally posted by steve:
Hi, I've been lurking for a while and have enjoyed the forums. I'm mulling over installing Linux on my PowerMac 7500 for kicks. What's the consensus on the best distro these days? This has probably been covered before, but I can't find it.
Thanks.
Your best choice will be YDL,
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/Your going to need more than a gig HD. My bro installd it on a standard 7500 and he needed to install a 64MB RAM chip and an extra HD.
Not only that, but since it is an old world machine, you have to start linux thrugh OS9. From what I hear the linux itself runs well, but if you want to put GNOME or KDE on it, it will be very slow.
I would suggest buying a used first or second generation iMac off of eBay. They are going pretty cheep and you can deffinetly put YDL on them right and good.
There is also Mandrake and Debian for the MacOS. The Mandrake Mac distro has a bit more overhead than YDL and I found it to be a simpler install, tho not as well documented.
Again, I would go with an old iMac for a truely functional desktop linux machine.
YDL, and Mandrake are both good distros. Check them out and take your pick. YDL seems to be updated and supported more however.
