[GRLUG] on a PowerBook G4

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 07:03:05AM -0500, Topher wrote:
> A friend was recently given a PowerBook G4.  Firefox is at 3.6 on
> there, and Safari is equally old.  We can't update the OS both
> technologically and financially, so I'm looking to put Linux on
> there.
> 
> I know practically nothing about PowerBooks.  I know it's old, and I
> don't think it has an intel proc.  I'm guessing I'll need a light
> desktop like XFCE.
> 
> What are my options for distro?  I suspect Debian, but that's always
> been a painful process for me.  Would xubuntu be light enough?  Or
> is the cruft going to bog it down?

Xubuntu will be lighter than Ubuntu but *buntus still have cruft that
Debian-proper does not.

> I don't necessarily want to get too crazy on distro, I'd like to be
> relatively familiar with it.  I know debian based systems pretty
> well, and redhat based systems, and I know Arch pretty well.

My vote will almost always be for Debian and you have a long-time Debian
user living just a few blocks from you.
-- 
john-thomas
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