TurboLinux is a different distribution, which I believe means that some of the basic files could be located in different places and some of the programs could be called different things, etc. TurboLinux uses a different installer (which on Intel machines apparently auto-detects just about everything to make installation easy). TurboLinux PPC also comes with some additional third-party software installed, such as Netscape Communicator, GIMP (a quality Photoshop replacemtent), Apache, Afterstep (a nice window manager), etc. The RedHat distribution may come with some of these (ie Apache and GIMP), but I know for certain it does not ship with Netscape. TurboLinux probably does not come with the RPM (RedHat Package Manger) system installed.

I should emphasize that distributions aren't really better or worse, just different. Caldera, Debian, and RedHat (three very popular Linux distributions) all target different "market segments" - RedHat is going for the ex-Win95 users, Caldera is going for the business market, and Debian uses *only* totally free software with the full sources availible (note that those are my interpretations =). TurboLinux looks like it's positioning itself as the easiest to install and get running.

hollis@andrew.cmu.edu

I've also heard that TurboLinux for the PowerMac is unimpressive at best; merely an Applescript program that asks you what type of computer you have and then puts MkLinux or LinuxPPC extensions/control panels where they belong. Aside from that, it's supposed to be very closely related to Redhat, possibly an earlier distribution like 4.1 (?).

If you want an up-to-date MkLinux pre-DR3 CD, you should look into the "What's included with the LinuxPPC CD?" in the Distributions category.

hollis@andrew.cmu.edu