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by **seppo** on Fri Sep 01, 2006 9:36 pm

Hi, I have a power pc mac mini and I was wondering if anyone knew of any good linux distributions for mac. Your help is greatly appreciated.

by **deags** on Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:30 am

OpenSUSE is alright. But try Ubuntu. Remember for ubuntu use hte alternative installer.

by **Pete** on Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:37 am

SERG SD

by **adilupu** on Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:08 am

I have got Ubuntu and is good. but u have to learn debian ..... Laughing

is dificult but verry gooooooood!

by **seppo** on Sun Sep 03, 2006 3:21 am

sweet thanks. ill take a look at those. I have yellow dog right now but i dont like it that much.

by **edsfunsite** on Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:48 am

Now, I've never used a Mac before, except years ago when we had an Apple Classic, but Mac OsX is Unix, right?

From http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/

Command-line Environment

UNIX users will feel at home in Darwin, the robust BSD environment that underlies Mac OS X. That environment is accessible at any time from the Terminal application. You can also run commands that dont require arguments (such as top) by double-clicking them in the Finder. With the thousands of man pages included in Mac OS X, you can quickly find all your favorite UNIX tools.

So, does OsX hide it that well? Or were you not using OsX?

by **tashi** on Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:52 pm

Darwin is a happy environment with bash shell, and you can run X11 in OSX as well. Being a linux user, I would arbitrarily say switch to linux because it's better, but macs can do a lot of the same stuff,so you might not even need to install a different OS, depending on why you want linux.

by **Pete** on Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:46 am

ASD G

by **markgrif** on Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:49 am

I can confirm Ubuntu installs and runs nicely on a PPC mac. I wonder about my macbook though. I have seen some long howtos about it. So I know it's possible. I wonder if it will get easier soon?

by **mahard** on Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:33 am

Hi All
Just wondering..is it the stage of installation Ubuntu in Mac same with the installation in PC ??

mahard

by **Nintendud** on Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:39 am

mahard wrote:Just wondering..is it the stage of installation Ubuntu in Mac same with the installation in PC ??

I don't see why it would need to be any different. It should be just as painfree as the PC installer.

by **HeavyJay** on Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:48 am

Soon I'll have my first Mac experience...I purchased one of the old school clamshell iBooks. If I find that I don't like OS X, I'll probably try to install Ubuntu on it. Let's hope I don't screw anything up. Rolling Eyes

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