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Anyone used Yellow Dog or Debian...??

Any hiccups with it... is it worth installing on my iBook.

Also has anyone used Fink?

I tried to install Yellow Dog once .. I couldn't get it to boot.( well I haven't really tried that hard anyway)

You have to change some parameter in open firmware to boot into Linux.

Just stick to OS X .. why'd you even want Linux if you have OS 10.3 :p

o yeah .. if you are getting Fink get Fink Commander also.

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I use Yellow Dog at work on my G4. I have no problems at all, though it was tricky to install at first. Also, Synaptic will make installing software much easier. I hate searching for yellowdog rpms!

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I've got Debian going on old powermacs (Pre-G3) as well as new ones. Certainly easier to do on the newer ones. I found that some of the old macs has problems with some 2.4 kernels but apart from that it runs fantastic :)

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i second this approach

:D

I have those instructions printed out... printed em out when I thought I was gonna get my powerbook, but since that ain't happenin' i still got the instructions!! :laugh:

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