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SimplyMEPIS.  It's perfect for old Mac users like me. It even has a black arrow cursor by default. I'd also recommend it for people fed up with Winduhs who are looking for an easy alternative. I use it on an old ThinkPad-- it's like a poor man's iBook.

Cutting-edge apps (pre-configured, too!), runs great on old hardware, it's bootable from CD with automatic hardware detection, installs easily to HD, reiserFS support-- the list goes on. It uses Synaptic for package management.

Here's a link to a nice review, that mentions some of its best features.

SimplyMEPIS is Debian-based, free and open source. You can order the disk from the link at the top, or go to budgetlinuxcds.com and save a few bucks. There's also a ProMEPIS which is more of a developer's distro. SimplyMEPIS is the desktop version.

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