Good morning. I recently acquired a PowerBook G4 12" and I was thinking about installing Debian. I have had some experience running other flavours of Linux on the x86 platform. I have been doing some research however since the hardware that I am using is fairly old, I have not been able to find recent information regarding the install of the OS nor any complications that I may run into. I don't really want to partition my drive to try to install an OS that is going to involve days of work getting to a workable status let alone retain the portablity that I am accustomed to. On the otherhand I don't mind putting a say a day or so of work to get it running, I am not looking for a multiple day project.
Regarding the install itself, partitioning-wise, I have been seeing in what research I have been able to do alot of the material has made mention of essentially dualbooting the system. Is this nessecary? I am not interested in retaining OS X. Also it is not very clear what would be the best version of Debian to install. Would it be better for me to install the Stable version or the testing version? And finally would there be any recommendations for alternatives to Debian?
