FYI: Kubuntu 5.04 live CD and iBook G4 - no go
 

I have tried $subj, and it was a no-go, no matter how many tweaks I have attempted at boot time (including spending lots of time on Ubuntu's forums for this specific combination) -just FYI

Linux on Mac better with Ubuntu and FireStarter FX
 

The best Linux on PPC (regarding best hardware suppport and most available software packages) is Ubuntu. Yellow Dog Linux runs a close second, but package management is more difficult than it needs to be since YDL is RPM-based.

Kubuntu is probably not what a "newcomer" is interested in (though try it if you want) since Kubuntu uses KDE as its default desktop environment which is much more like Windows than Gnome. Gnome is what Ubuntu and YDL use. KDE feels like a mesh of barely connected programs and just lacks the beauty and simplicity Mac users have come to know and love.

I say Ubuntu/Kubuntu is the way to go for hardware/software support and out of the two Ubuntu for its use of Gnome, but try Kubuntu (with KDE) if you're into that sort of thing.

For burning the ISO images, use FireStarter FX (http://www.projectomega.org/subcat.p...ts_firestarter) and you won't have any trouble booting from the CDs.

One thing to keep in mind is that Linux does not support the AirPort extreme found in current Macs. The chipset manufacturer Broadcom will not release the specs so that the open source community can write drivers for it. Eventually it will probably be reverse-engineered but that's a slow process that could be much simpler if Broadcom didn't suck.

Just my three cents.


khad

While most linux/unix users arn't aware of it there actually is a knoppix for ppc:
http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/powerPC/
I have downloaded it and tried it without any real success but there is a fairly long and old thread at the knoppix forum about this and it seems like someone got it working-yes supposedly live-cd. That is after all a knoppix claim to fame. I use a pc alot (linux) and am at several boards including knoppix.