Good Mac distro?

ComputerMan · 12-15-2006, 04:37 AM

I'm not really a newbie per se but this is, no doubt, a newbie question.

I have an iMac 350 (blueberry for those inquisitive minds) that is a paperweight / dust collector. I want to convert it into a Linuxbox for general purposes, maybe do a little C.

I'm kind of leaning towards Debian but I don't have the resources to download 9 ISO images (unless I'm missing something and it's not 9 ISOs).

Anyone wanna tell me what they're running on their Mac and why?

Thanks.

jacook · 12-15-2006, 04:58 AM

Try a few of these Out:

Debian
http://www.debian.org/

MKLinux
http://www.mklinux.org/

RT-Linux
http://www.rtlinux.org

SuSE/Novell (D'uh)
http://www.suse.com/

Yellow Dog
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

HA Linux
http://www.motorola.com/linux

ELinOS
http://www.elinos.com/

Source Mage GNU/Linux
http://www.sourcemage.org

Mandriva
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/

Shark Linux
http://www.sharklinux.com

Intrinsyc Linux
http://linux.intrinsyc.com

PLD Linux
http://www.pld-linux.org/

Ubuntu
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

Gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org

Fedora core
http://fedora.redhat.com/

Kubuntu
http://www.kubuntu.org/

Gnoppix
http://www.gnoppix.org/

Knoppix MIB
http://www.bouissou.net/knoppix-mib/...oppix-Mib.html

LFS Live CD
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/

Rock Linux
http://www.rocklinux.org/wiki/Main_Page

if your still unsure of the distro try these Distro Choosers:

http://eedok.voidofmind.com/linux/chooser.html
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html