I much prefer LinuxPPC, as it's based more or less on RedHat. I think that MandrakePPC is designed more for us gearheads that was a heterogenous software environment, running Mandrake 8.0 on x86 and PPC... Although I much prefer Mac OS X with Xdarwin to any of the current LinuxPPC distros...
Terry > Not to rain on Mandrake here, but have you looked into Yellow Dog Linux?
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