[GRLUG] on a PowerBook G4

[Roger Roelofs]

The distro everyone was using on PPC macs was yellow dog. Haven't used
it in years.

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On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:03, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> topher
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