Linux Distro help.

Neil Bradshaw nbradshaw at mlug.missouri.edu
Wed Mar 7 04:18:42 CST 2001


Yellow Dog Linux is a good Mac distro. SuSE also makes a good Mac distro,
with lots of documentation.

As for the laptop, if it had swappable hard drives, get a small laptop
drive for it and install Linux on that drive.

Regards,
Neil Bradshaw	
		
bradshaw at missouri.edu
http://web.missouri.edu/~npba45/

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, T. Margrave wrote:

> Ok this is a two part question.
> 
> part 1
> 
> Since I have taken my new job  I have not been able to get back into Linux.
> My new company MIS will not allow me install Linux on my Dell Laptop. So
> here is the real question: a few months ago I saw a boot CD that ran Linux
> off of it.  All I had to do is boot Linux CD and it would run off of the CD.
> I do not remember much from there.
> The only reason MIS does not want me to install it is because they are
> uninformed about it.
> 
> 
> Part 2.
> 
> I have ran into a fellow employee in NYC, NY and he wants to try Linux but,
> he has a Mac.  He has ask me where to find a good distro for the Mac.  I
> know very little about a Mac (even spelling it skips my mind).  Does anybody
> have any suggestion about this?
> 
> 
> Please send replies to my work email address since I do not check the list
> while I am on the road. ( tmargrave at starbase.com )
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tom Margrave
> 
> 
> 
> 




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