I have a Mac mini from 2005. It has 1GB of RAM, 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 processor, ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card and 80.0GB of storage space.

This machine barely makes any noise, takes up a little space and can read/write disks like a champion, so I decided I'll wipe the Mac OS X installation and get some *nix running on it.

My goals are:

- run X + 2bwm
- setup Vim (this is mostly easy)
- setup texlive (it must be the 2014 release, so goodbye netbsd)
- setup a build environment for programming
- run a Webkit based lightweight browser (I must be able to use an older version of webkit, because the newer ones crash on ppcs)
- run mplayer (low priority)

I've installed Debian Jessie after a friend's recommendation, but it was not my cup of tea. I couldn't manage setting the correct depth settings for Xorg without getting a segfault and neither could I downgrade webkit.

Now I'm looking for a Linux/BSD distribution for PowerPC. Please help me out with this decision, as I'm very excited to set my little workstation up and nix more!