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macintosh distributions, which is best?

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venkman

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Oct 9, 2001
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I recently came into possession of g4 500 mhz laptop. I've always been a pc person and know very little about macs. I was thinking of making it dual boot os x and linux. Wondering what distribution is best for macintosh. I know that's a rather personal question, but consider that I tend to use redhat on my x86 machines. linux.org lists several choices (mklinux, yellow dog, suse, debian, mandrake). I know yellow dog is redhat based, but it says on their website that they are only up to redhat 7.2, two revisions behind normal redhat. Are there distributions known for keeping ppc linux up to speed with x86 systems? Or is it that the linux kernel itself usually gets developed for x86 first anyways, so mac systems always have to be behind?

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