Are you already a debian user? if so I would install debian. It is the bomb. However, if you have the time, and you would like to try out gentoo. Go for that. I like debian over gentoo, because it doesn't take so much time to compile stuff.
Art On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 09:06, Soren Harward wrote: > On Thu 06 May 2004 at 02:09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I'm going to install linux on my iBook this week. In a past thread, > > someone recommended Debian for ppc. Does anyone else have > > recommendations? I've installed and used Yellow Dog before, and have > > been trying to decide between YDL, Debian, and Gentoo. I'm kind of > > leaning towards Gentoo, since I haven't tried it on any platform. > > The nice thing about Gentoo is that as far as packages are concerned, all > the archs stay fairly well in sync (and if not, it's really easy to hack). > I haven't used PPC, but Debian/Alpha was always a bit behind Debian/x86. Of > course, this isn't an issue with Yellow Dog, but I think that if you've got > a home system of a non-x86 arch, then Gentoo is the way to go. Then again, > I think Gentoo is the way to go in pretty much every circumstance... ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
