free Linux recommendations - i wanna try it!

[Lt Major Burns]

can someone reccomend the best example of a free linux i can run on my mac? i'm curious and i want to run it. which are the best ones to go for/the most mature, grown up versions?

 

[chevy]

Yellowdog Linux
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

 

[nixgeek]

There's also Ubuntu

http://www.ubuntulinux.org

And it's KDE counterpart, Kubuntu

http://www.kubuntu.org

Both of these are have a Debian foundation, similar to Libranet and Xandros which are supposed to be geared towards end users.

Yellow Dog, Mandriva, Fedora Core 4 (coming soon, but available in testing mode with PPC support), SuSE, and some others havea Red Hat foundation in that they use RPMs for package management.

 

[Lt Major Burns]

it's really complex. do i download the 4 ISO's from the ftp site (i've gone for 4.0.1) and burn each one to cd? then do i boot up with the first one? (holding down c?)

 

[Lt Major Burns]

cheers nixgeek, i've just got free cd's off ubuntu - much easier than the yellow dog method. very friendly

 

[riccbhard]

Well; I use Slax on my PC.

http://www.slax.linux-live.org

 

[mw84]

Redhat 9 was nice, so I'd probably go with Fedora now. If your interested I still have my Redhat 9 install disks around (proper ones not just burnt by myself). I won't be using them again now so, if you want them just post me a stamped, addressed envelope. I'm just outside Liverpool message me if your interested.

 

[ElDiabloConCaca]

Fedora Core 4 has bootable ISOs for PowerPC computers, if you wanna give it a try.

 

[chevy]

Yes, you download the CDs, burn these, and then install.

 

[Viro]

Ubuntu is by far the best PowerPC Linux distro that I've tried. Easy to use, and comes on only one CD.