RockoTDF Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 I plan on installing a linux distro of some kind onto a firewire enclosure I have with my ibook. Yellowdog seems interesting since it has been a PPC oriented distro from day one and I would imagine to therefore have great driver support and so on. But I could be wrong, so what advice do you all have? I was using fedora for a while on a pc that later died and liked yum and the the RPM system (never really quite figured out make install and all that...) which is one thing I like about the look of YDL. I also hear that apt get (?) is similar but better Would I be better off with Darwin or some other BSD oriented system? I have located some statistics programs (open source SPSS replacements) for linux that I would like to be able to use in school next semester (psych major), so in addition to computer geeky fun I have a practical reason to want linux. SPSS is a pain when the labs that have it are all filled with people working on the same assignment you are, and id like to avoid that mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 Ubuntu has a ppc version, and going from its x86-x64 distro it is very good. yellow dog (?) also is rated very highly for ppc too and would probobly be better as it is spacificially designed for ppc, not just ported over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 Also, i have used PC-BSD and by my experience bsd is extremely good but lacks the massive push that linux has gotten as of late, so there is much less support... cept in the server areas of buisness... oh, and some bsd oss do not come with a gui by default, so u have to install that after the fact on your own (a la freebsd)... max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampTK Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I would recomend gentoo (I only use the x86 version) it has HFS+ support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted July 20, 2006 Share Posted July 20, 2006 I've been partial to Ubuntu until I do something that makes Linux cry (like transfer 959 music files from one system to another). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockoTDF Posted July 21, 2006 Author Share Posted July 21, 2006 Well, Ive got Yellow Dog installed on a firewire drive, but when I hold down option the selector screen loads but the firewire drive does not come up as an option Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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