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Posted May 31, 2008 at 11:08:00 PM
Subject: G4 Mac Mini and G3 PowerBook: which linuxes for each?
I have 3 macs which I'm considering for Linux:
1. a G3 Powerbook ("Pismo") 400 mhz with a 40-gig drive, and 384MB of RAM, and
2. 2 G4 Mac Mini, 1.42 Mhz, 1 gig ram, 80 gig internal drive (one of them boots to an external 7200 rpm FW drive.)
the G3 Powerbook, I'd like to have as a dedicated linux machine. It runs OS X 10.3.9, but runs it only so-so; I'd like to have it be more responsive and therefore more useful. it would be mainly for email, web surfing and general tasks.. if it could run Gimp and Inkscape, that would be excellent.
the G4 Minis would be dual-boot installations of OS X Tiger and whichever version of Linux would be best. Gimp, Scribus, Krita, Inkscape, and web surfing, email..probably Blender 3D would be the main reasons for having linux on those machines.
Any recommendations on which Linux is best for these Macs, based on what they are and on the tasks I'd like to use them for?
thank you!
phaze_L
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Shashank Sharma
Joined Jan 01, 1970
Posts: 1657
Location:New Delhi, India
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Posted:
Jun 23, 2008 8:19:32 AM
Subject: G4 Mac Mini and G3 PowerBook: which linuxes for each?
For your G4, assuming it's 1.4 Ghz, you could go for any Linux distro from Fedora to Ubuntu to OpenSUSE to Mandriva or any other distro you fancy. They all can run all the applications you want and 1 GB RAM should suffice.
For the G3, you'd have to settle for something like Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux, since you don't have enough processor power or RAM to run the heavy-weight distros.
You can read about these and other distributions here:
http://www.linux.com/distributions/
http://distrowatch.com
Cheers!
Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress.
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