Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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Here's my article: For Mac users that want to try out Linux, Mandrake 9.1 is significantly better (in my opinion). They have much better Mac On Linux support (run Linux and Mac OS X simultaneously) and their default setup under Gnome is more Mac-ish (though you can configure it however you like).
Personally, I won't use any computer with less than 512MB of RAM. Buy more RAM; it's cheap, and it helps a ton, despite some people's claims of "fast performance" with only 128MB... Fast is really relative and open to interpretation. All computers perform better with more RAM; it's just a fact.
That all said, if you only want to run Linux, please just go buy PC hardware and run Red Hat (though I REALLY like what SuSE has done w/8.2). I've compared YDL3 and RHL9 side-by-side, and YDL3 is a decent attempt at recreating RHL8/9 on PowerPC hardware, but falls way short. If you want Linux and Mac on the same machine, then either YDL or Mandrake are viable options (I like MDK9.1 better).
For the record, I use primarily Mac OS X on the desktop (and laptop), Linux for my servers, but my RHL 9 & SuSE 8.2 machines are starting to get more play on the desktop...