Everybody keeps recommending Yellow Dog Linux to me and the YDL websiteTake a look at Debian. They offer a net-based install ( I've used that w/ broadband connection -- its easy! ) and you can control what packages are installed using dselect or tasksel. The "apt" package management tool makes installing software and updating a breeze. You should browse the available packages online and see if they have programs that might do what you are interested in.
makes it look like a good OS. It does seem to be a little large and
complex and graphical, particularly for my initial experiments, which I
want to focus on the command line and on the old traditional unix type
programs so I can get a good foundation in how to use that stuff. I
would also like to download the initial installation rather than buy it
on CD, so size matters. I used to use MS-DOS and DR-DOS a lot in the
late eighties and early nineties, so the concept of a command line isn't
entirely foreign to me, but I know very little about unix or linux.
I've tried YDL 3.0 on the mac and have since migrated all my machines to Debian. However, if ease of installation is a primary concern you might go with YDL since Debian's installer is the only downside of Debian I can think of.
FWIW, I too have an All-In-One. I have successfully got it running OS X 10.2.6, OS 9.1 and Debian Linux although I originally tried installing YDL. YDL would install but then I would loose OS X, which upon re-installation, would cause YDL to disappear! It turned out that partitions on my hard disk where actually DISAPPEARING! After farting around with that a couple times I put Debian on and it has worked great ever since.
-Tom.
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