> >I haven't been able to get Linux working on either my recently
> >purchased G3 PDQ or my G5 single (PowerMac 9.1) - except for Fedora
> >Core PPC 5 (no sound). I would have thought that the BSDs being more
> 
> I've had good experiences with Ubuntu on PPC hardware.  You might want
> to give it a try.
 
Yes.  I've also found that Debian/Ubuntu have good support for PPC
hardware.  ...no experience with any G3 powerbooks though.

I think NetBSD is a much more elegant system, but, if you're at an
impasse with NetBSD, you may want to try either of those.  The
installers are extremely newbie-friendly.  And you can use the Debian
package manager at the same time as pkgsrc if you want.

-Rob