[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian advice

[severian@pobox.com]

Lance,
   Thanks for the advice.  I read enough to decide I needed more time.  So, 
I installed Mandrake 9.1 on that machine to get it running.  I would 
probably have gone SuSE, but I have had no luck printing to a network 
printer from SuSE.  I upgraded my Windows 2003 Server at home to Debian 
Linux and I'll take some time and upgrade it.
   This week I'll try installing Linux on  MAC 7600 with a G3/400 with 512K 
L2.  I see three choices, which are Mandrake 9.1, Debian, and Yellow 
Dog.  I'd go OSX, but OSX seems to need a CPU with a 1 meg L2 cache.  Does 
anyone have any advice here?  I don't want to spend much money to get this 
system up.  Seeing as how this is an Old World Mac, I am pretty sure I must 
install OS 8 on a half gig or so partition first.  Does anyone know how to 
configure the chooser to go to Linux by default?
Thank,
Ralph

In response to the welcome remarks of Lance Simmons at 12:29 PM 8/7/03 -0500:
>You may want to read the apt howto, and find out about apt-pinning.  You
>can easily have a mixed stable/testing or testing/unstable machine, by
>pinning some packages to one distribution, and other packages to others.