Wow! Thanks for the replies,
Two Gentoo's and a Debian. I have a 386 that I run Debian Sarge on. Well, I try to :-) I used it for my linux computer during the school year so I wouldn't crash my homework computer. I really like it.
Two more factors:
1) Does anyone know if Mac-on-Linux works for either/both Gentoo or Debian?
It went a long time with no updates (one year!), and poor docs...
2) This one's not as important. - I enabled spanning monitors on my iBook and like using it. This notice is from the page I got the spanning from: http://www.rutemoeller.com/mp/ibook/ibook_e.html It's doesn't seem to say if spanning is enabled in linux or just lets linux boot still.
~Michael
Soren:
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...
Art: 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.
Matt:
Gentoo would be great to try, I really like it. Their documentation is the best I have seen!
Here is a Gentoo FAQ for ppc: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml
Here is the Gentoo installation for ppc: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml
For much more information in general about getting things to work on Gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml
There are a lot of guides there.
They (the guides above) are written specifically for your platform, so it should help out during the install.
soon-to-be-BYU-student,
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