Re: m68k or PPC?
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Allan Rasmusson 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
Well besides the concern of not recognizing the PPC chip, LinuxPPC
YellowDog and the like only supprot PCI based PPC machines. So your
choices are limited even further.
I would suggest m68k Debian. That should run pretty well on that Quadra to
use it as a server. Avoid the overhead of X though, unless you really need
it.
Matt
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