So my computer is a 7-year-old Apple iBook G3 700Mhz. It's kind of a piece of junk that has massive slowdown at times. And I'm thinking about putting Linux on it.

I know NOTHING about Linux, so I'm wondering:

Will it give me any type of performance boost? I'm not looking to do any type of really intensive applications.

The things I've done on my computer the last six months are these (and these are likely all I'd need a Linux system to do):

+Listen to music
+Surf the internet
+Word processing
+Occasional photoshop (very, very minor stuff like adding text over a picture.
+Some full-screen videoing of video files.

Ultimately, I'd like all of these and maybe be able to get a little streaming video. (My computer sucks for this).

3/31/2009 1:37:20 PM

You can do all of that with Linux, but from personal experience most linux distros with powerpc support aren't supported that well.


Probably not the best place for a linux n00b to start out - a distro and build that isn't supported that well to begin with.

[Edited on March 31, 2009 at 1:49 PM. Reason : you wont know why stuff doesn't work, and you'd have an extremely steep learning curve]

3/31/2009 1:48:11 PM

I would recommend downloading a few of the live Linux cd/DVD's to get a feel for what will work on your system. Most all distros have a live version so you can try a few out without having to install it. A few to try out are Fedora, CentOS, knoppix, slax.

3/31/2009 2:55:36 PM