Re: m68k or PPC?
Hello Russell
On 26-Apr-00, you wrote:
> Well of course the PPC (LinuxPPC? YellowDog Linux? Something else?)
> distribution can be downloaded free. So can Debian, or any other Linux
> Distribution. That's part of the beauty of Linux. Your real question is
> what you should use. The answer is m68k. You can't use any PPC distro
> because you don't have the drivers to tell Linux to look for/use the PPC
> chip. The Mac OS does, IIRC. You should have some sort of extension in the
> Mac OS that says "use the PPC chip instead of the m68k chip." There isn't
> such an equivalent in Linux, unless you can get somebody at wherever you
> got your chip from to write a driver that will do the same thing as the
> Mac OS extension...
>
> Russell
>
Yeah, I figured I might run into that kind of problems. It's not possible to
get a driver written, since this mac has been a netserver for a clothing
company! Bad luck. I think I'll check the mac OS out at first then.
/Allan
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