[NTLUG:Discuss] Debian advice

[Tom Adelstein]

severian at pobox.com wrote:
> 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.
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I ran OSX on several G3 400 systems. I didn't have a problem at all. I 
ran them with 256MB RAM. Check out the requirements with Apple. I can't 
remember if the 7600 will work with OSX.

Regarding Linux, I would go with Yellow Dog. I tried the PPC versions of 
everything else and was disappointed. SuSE's made to run on RS-6000 IBM 
PPC's. I did run it on a New Apple G4 and it worked for testing an 
application written for the pSeries IBM. I didn't like it as a desktop.

I won't say anything about Mandrake. I can just say that Yellow Dog is 
really Linux and really Mac.