I NEED A DISTRO
I was given an old imac it;s one of those blue bubble (all but the keyboard and mouse in one(hdd cpu mobo crt) what looks like monitor housing) looking things
it has a 3Gig hdd , 64MB ram , 333Mhz CPU
the last apple I did any thing with was an apple ]|[
I'm not a newbie to linux but
I am totally lost with this thing

I would like a distro something like slackware

This is a G3 Mac. I'm not a Mac expert, but I've got feeling most Linux distros want G4 at least. In fact I was given similar iMac some time ago, 32 MB of RAM. Tried to boot with GeeXboX - no cigar. I found some old laptop RAM in my drawer which worked. With 288 MB I was able to install OS X 10.3. Since I have no Windows in house I keep that Mac for cases where "supported OS" is needed.

Quite frankly, the best "Unix" distribution for such a machine is ... OS/X.

OSX, as far as I remember, works best with 128mb, minimum. I would try debian and use a light window manager like fluxbox or windowmaker.

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You could also try slackintosh (slackware for ppc machines)

and here's a little more info about your machine:
http://lowendmac.com/imacs/rev-d-imac-g3-333-mhz.html

I've been testing OpenSuSE (OSL) 11.0 pre-release versions (currently at Alpha2) on an iMAC G3 - 350 MHz PPC and 512M RAM but otherwise very much as you describe.

KDE4 runs a bit slow (so a lighter window manager such as XFCE or Fluxbox might be a good move) and I currently have some issues getting it to boot, but it most certainly runs.

OSL 10.3 also runs OK apart from some difficulties getting the screen position right (this is a common problem caused I think by an issue with the version of X.org). KDE3 is quicker than KDE4 but still sluggish.

For almost any application, and especially for OpenOffice, I'd most definitely advise upping the RAM as far as you can. I doubt you'll get anything usable to run with 64M or even 128M. It probably takes 2 sticks of PC100, very cheap on Ebay - mine specifies PC100 but seems happy with PC133, YMMV...

Cheers
Richard (MQ)