On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:42:31AM +0200, damsnet@free.fr wrote: > > the LinuxPPC 2000 cd is bootable on my Performa, and it shows a nice splash i am so sick of hearing about LinuxPPC. > screen with "Yaboot" on boot. And then I can choose graphically between its *NOT* yaboot. believe me i know, i am the upstream maintainer of yaboot's source code now, yaboot does NOT have a GUI, and never has. > different kernels by clicking them and boot. Do you think it needs some > proprietary software to do that? The iso of this cd can be freely downloaded on > the linuxppc site. it requires proprietary Apple CDROM drivers which require a distribution licence. the only way to get this is by using a proprietary, expensive CD burning software that only runs on MacOS, a proprietary OS. thats exactly what LinuxPPC did, and what Debian will NEVER do. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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