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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Although I run OS X exclusively, I have installed YDL 2.3 on my Lombard hoping that it will require less resources. Turns out that if you use a decent DE, Linux is a resource hog just like OS X. And call me weird, but OS X is slow but usable on this 333 MHz G3 with 384 MB of RAM
Anyway, I do have Linux installed and play a bit from time to time. I waited for YDL 3.0, and tried Mandrake 9.1 PPC because it was released earlier, and boy was I pleasantly surprised! Install was flawless, everything just worked, the assortment of installed packages is great (MOL is there and worked right away), not a single problem.
Then I gave a shot at YDL 3.0 expecting something even better, but it turns out that people at Mandrake have made a better job at PPC Linux than the YDL has.
I guess my point is to try Mandrake, don't just assume that YDL 3.0 is better like I did.