Post by Larry AndersonNot every PPC machine is a cakewalk to install. I seem to have a lousy time
finding Video drivers (or the proper configuration) for many older
Macintosh Models/monitors and sound is an issue on some as well.
The OP was looking to buy a new computer, so getting linux/ppc to
work on older Apple hardware isn't an issue. Of course getting linux
onto an older Apple is going to be more difficult--not all of the
hardware specs were open, booting the older Open Firmwares was a
Nightmare of Depravity (TM), and newer linux distros, reasonably
enough, focus on newer hardware.
Post by Larry AndersonNo parallel or serial ports the Macs either, limits the stuff you can plug
into your machine.
If you have these devices. Most new devices nowadays are USB or
Firewire, and adapters for parallel and serial devices are readily
available (though not always cheap).
Post by Larry AndersonReading on forums and such many of the Unix/Linux crowd have moved to Mac OS
X because it's just as Unixy with all the support of a commercial OS and
using utilities such as Fink they port over the PPC Linux stuff they
desire. So I (IMHO) would do OSX on PPC and if I was going "straight
Linux", I'd go the X86 route and avoid the PPC schizophrenia.
It is hardly split-personality. OS X can be such a dog compared to
linux/ppc. I run linux on my iBook, and it is sluggish a lot less
often than OS X used to be. It even behaves reasonably well with
OS X running in Mac-on-Linux (though don't expect miracles).
And let's not use the ''commercial support'' argument! By that
argument, you'd be running Windows on your x86 hardware. Or Solaris.
--keith
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