Nuuuuuubee...

[Tho X. Bui]

Hey there,

Complete newbie here. Is there a FAQ's available for this ng?

At any rate, I have a bunch of "slightly mature" Macs and a few PC's
around the house, and I would like to explore linux.

A friend told me that I can get a bootable CD that allows me to boot up
from and check out the OS.

The current machine of choice probably would be my ibook dual USB-600,
combo drive. I have the usual OS (9.2 and X) and Toast.

Obviously a newbie, so please be gentle with the jargon, e.g., "building
a kernel of corn while eating a yellow dog that's wearing a red hat"
means nothing to me :-)

Thanks.

Tho

[Jonathan Bartlett]

Post by Tho X. Bui
A friend told me that I can get a bootable CD that allows me to boot up
from and check out the OS.

The best one is Knoppix. They apparently have one for PPC, although I
don't know how good it is or what its compatible with:

http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/powerPC/

For x86 PCs you can get Knoppix here:

http://www.knoppix.org/

For a full distribution (a distribution is a complete Linux operating
system -- Linux is just the base or "kernel" of an operating system)
that you can install on PowerPC, I'd try Yellow Dog Linux:

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

Jon
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