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    Very well, this is what I have:

    iMac
    Power PC G3 - 350 MHz
    192 MB built in memory
    ATA Hard drive - 9 GB

    Currently the box has OS 9.2.1 loaded...

    I have researched possibilities for using linux on this piece of (might as well censor myself before an administrator does it for me... ) and have looked at Yellow Dog Linux. However, it is my understanding that they do not offer a live CD...

    So my question goes: What live distro would be suitable to run the box Iīve described with the option of a hard drive install?

    Remark: This is actually my folksī box (ages seventy something and sixty) so I have to be rather sensitive to their needs and provide them with something easy to work with and fun.

    Ah! Iīd prefer not to use Ubuntu here...

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    Quote Originally Posted by daacosta
    Very well, this is what I have:

    iMac
    Power PC G3 - 350 MHz
    192 MB built in memory
    ATA Hard drive - 9 GB

    Currently the box has OS 9.2.1 loaded...
    MAC OS 9.2 is quite nice. If you find it runs slow, you can do a clean intall (given you still have the installation disk).

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    Ah! Iīd prefer not to use Ubuntu here...
    Xubuntu then ?
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    There is also fluxbuntu. It is ubuntu with, you guessed it, fluxbox.

    Sorry if you didn't want the *buntu's. They seem to work well (especially for people who don't use computers much).

    What about regular Debian? I also seem to get a lot of Gentoo references when I searched for PPC live cds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bryansmith
    There is also fluxbuntu. It is ubuntu with, you guessed it, fluxbox.

    Sorry if you didn't want the *buntu's. They seem to work well (especially for people who don't use computers much).

    What about regular Debian? I also seem to get a lot of Gentoo references when I searched for PPC live cds.

    Bryan
    Maybe fluxbuntu is the right choice... See, Ubuntu is rather heavy for my humble box and thatīs why I considered it a poor choice but fluxbuntu or xubuntu might be alright. I frankly donīt feel like struggling with Debian or Gentoo because I am pathologically lazy and want something that will work easily... fluxbuntu might do it and I will download it...

    OS 9.2 is killing my inner child and I refuse to let that happen... A clean reinstall is possible but I just donīt want to do it [I am too lazy...] I could also revamp the memory of my box and install OS X but I donīt want to spend money on this...

    Thanks to Bryan and anti for the time they took to answer my question...

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