On Monday 14 January 2002 11:56, Michael Glaser wrote: > Has anyone done it? If so, where can I find the software to install it? I > have heard of Yellow Dog Linux, but it looks like it does not run on this > model. > Also, the laptop has a MPC-100 PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet card that is made by > 'Macsense'. Is there any chance that this would be supported? Michael, you're welcome to borrow my Yellow Dog 2.0 CDs and give it a try. I had little (only two weeks...) trouble getting Yellow Dog working smoothly on a PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, but in order to do it I had to enter some information by hand that I would never have thought of: trackpad support, middle & right mouse buttons, and so on. I was able to find this info on the Web for the G3, but it may not be the same for the 1400c. I found Yellow Dog to have surprisingly good hardware support, so your PC card may well be supported. If you have access to a high-speed Internet connection and a CD burner, you might try downloading a variety of distributions -- Yellow Dog 2.1, Mandrake PPC, Debian PPC -- and try each of them to see which has the best hardware support. I will say that after using Linux on my PowerBook for about 6 months, I bought an Athlon PC, put Linux on that, and now I'm selling my PowerBook. Linux runs competently on the Mac -- in some ways better than Mac OS -- but it runs better on a PC. That's my opinion. --Ben