Greetings! Fresh meat, here. I know precious little about Mac hardware, so forgive me if some of my question seems obvious.
I'm typing this post from my eMac (USB 2.0) -- G4 1.25Ghz, Radeon 9200, 40GB drive, DVD player/CD-RW, and that fine 17" built-in CRT. I don't use the Mac mouse or keyboard (MS Wheelmouse Optical and MicroInnovations KD565BL Multimedia Keyboard). For now it runs SUSE 11.0, but not without issues. As you might expect, I got past the partitioning business (pdisk is so much fun), and I have no intention of running OS X, though I have had Leopard on this thing. Further, I'm quite at home with CentOS running on other hardware, and have played with RH off and on since about 5.0.
While I see references in the forum archives to models similar to mine, I find the TerraSoft site a little ambiguous on whether my hardware is supported. It lists "eMac" with the most ancient G3s, yet says it should work quite fine with all other G4s (particularly iMacs). I'd be comfortable with running YDL 5.x, and would even consider 4.x., but latest is greatest in general, no? I have DSL and access to a DVD burner, so that's not an issue. My Mac is currently my only system. I'm a writer, for the most part, and Linux/BSD are my style for the tools, etc. (BSD does not support booting from the harddrive with OpenFirmware, yet).
Can anyone here help me assess the likelihood I can get one of the YDL releases installed and running without major suffering? I have the advantage of having configured a very solid xorg.conf for openSUSE. I'm not in a position to struggle too awfully long with this, but I'd like to use something which might offer a better fit for my habits.