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Looking for best Linux distro for a Blue G3/350
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for running a simple web server and ftp hole? Looking for the best and most compatible distro for this machine..ease of install is the most important factor... thanks
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by jeffzkpr:
<strong>for running a simple web server and ftp hole? Looking for the best and most compatible distro for this machine..ease of install is the most important factor... thanks
jzkpr</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Your question has a problem because the best linux distro is not the easiest to stup/use. Once your linux will be reunning you'll need to secure it, and follow some security mailing list in order not to let your machine in hands of script kiddies. Anyway here's My answer :
</font> - <font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/range?wslang=en" target="_blank">Mandrake</a> is the easiest to set up</font></li>
- <font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"> <a href="http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/" target="_blank">Debian</a> is the best linux distro available.</font></li>
- <font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"> depending on your hardware I'de recommand checking out <a href="http://www.opendarwin.org" target="_blank">darwin</a> or <a href="http://www.netbsd.org" target="_blank">NetBSD</a>.
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<font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">The two latest are *BSD system and are a lot more mature from the administration point of view and the quality of the releases. *BSD does QA a lot better than most linux distros.
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Take a look at Slackware - I have never touched a Linux distro before and had it up and running in a few hours. It now serves as a mail/www server for my LAN. I personally chose it for its small memory footprint.
<a href="http://slackware.org" target="_blank">http://slackware.org</a>
<small>[ 07-30-2002, 08:10 AM: Message edited by: bluehz ]</small>
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Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 is awesome and incredibly easy to install.
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24" iMac 2.13ghz C2D | 15" MBP 2ghz CD | "Soundwave" 60GB 5G iPod
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I am going to give Debian a shot... I will let you all know how it goes... regards
<small>[ 07-30-2002, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: jeffzkpr ]</small>
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AFAIK Slackware is only available for x86.
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Reporting back. Debian 30r0 ppc installed with barely any problems.
the only hitch was that the CD wouldn't boot into the kernel on my Blue G3/350.
Simply following the Open Firmware boot instructions of:
boot cd:,install\powermac\yaboot found the loader and config fine!
Final note: if you have used fink under osx you'll be very familiar with Debian's pkg manager <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />
Thanks for the help and suggestions folks.
<a href="http://www.debian.org" target="_blank">http://www.debian.org</a>
<a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">http://fink.sourceforge.net</a>
jzkpr
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