Ok, did some investigating, and I got it to work. though I didn't actually get the have a USB stick at the time to save anything, it was indicated that I could do so.
There's a mod of puppy linux that somebody made called Teen Pup or Teen puppy, I guess to be more fun or more multimedia.
http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/TeenPup
It has Kino, Audacity, XaraLX and other apps for experimentation. It's pretty big actually, 250MB approx, however, my mac is good to go for memory.
So I burned the ISO on windows, because Mac couldn't do it, (even with disk utility) but despite nero saying something didn't "match" with the disk image, making a cd worked, and holding the option key at boot up on the mac, puppy came up and configured pretty easily, though the display wasn't quite right.
Teen puppy did get my bluetooth wireless mouse instantly, but wireless internet didn't work from what I could see. Xara worked fine. Funny thing, I make a lot of use of the right-click drag in xara, and with the mac, the mighty mouse, can't do right-left click together, so I'll have to just dupe objects with Ctrl-K. but it feels great, much better than inkscape, and I can experiment again. I even have illustrator CS3 on my mac, but I don't want it if I can use Xara. The shape editor, transparency and smoothness is so much better on Xara.
so problem solved for now, hopefully the xtreme mac commercial version is coming out sometime soon. It's on the horizon I hear.
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