Re: Squeeze

[Thomas Carlson <tcarlson@sharedcup.com>]

I totally agree.

On Oct 28, 2010, at 12:18 PM, John Ogness wrote:

> On 2010-10-28, Thomas Carlson <tcarlson@sharedcup.com> wrote:
>> I have been periodically installing the latest "test" version of
>> Squeeze on my PowerMac G4 (digital audio) hoping that when the
>> finalized version is released at the end of this year I can
>> recommend it as a good alternative to Mac OS X Tiger on older
>> PowerPC machines.
> 
> In my opinion Debian is quickly becoming the _only_ alternative (and a
> necessary one) for PowerPC Macs. For example, anyone running Tiger
> (10.4) or older no longer has any software support (whether Firefox or
> OpenOffice). As crazy as this may sound, the only way to have
> up-to-date software on such machines is to run Debian.
> 
> This is one reason that I believe the Debian/powerpc port is so
> important.
> 
> John Ogness
>