Re: Debian on 7200 -- Success!
"EB" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>
"WT" == Werner Teeling <werner@waag.org>
EB> frankly i would suggest selling the damn thing and getting
EB> a newworld box (a used imac or something) nobody is testing
EB> kernels on 7200's and nobody other then Dan seems to give a
EB> damn whether quik works or not. oldworld macs are a total
EB> nightmare for running GNU/Linux.
WT> Maybe true, but not really a moral booster.
Not only not a morale booster, but also very much untrue.
I've been running Debian on a PowerCenter 132 (based on the
Catalyst motherboard, just like the 7200) since June of last year.
It runs just fine. It's reasonably fast, it's stable, and it's
very functional. I have decent video, at a higher resolution than
I could get with MacOS (1152x864, 24-bit color). Sound works
(both input and output), although there are still problems with
some of the tools I'd like to use. (Dan Jacobwitz has one of
these machines, too -- he won it from the LinuxPPC folks by
cracking into it.)
Yes, I use BootX, but so what? There's still no replacement for
Illustrator or Photoshop that runs under Linux, and those tools
are irreplaceable.
Maybe my partner and I are crazy, but we can't see any reason to
throw away perfectly decent machines and spend a fortune on a new
machine that will be obsolete before its unpacked. (Our
nine-year-old NeXTstation is still going strong, and the dual-
133MHz Pentium PC we bought for $150 last year is ticking away
happily, too. Our newest visitor is a PowerTower Pro 225.)
I have to say I'm amazed by the attitudes of some of the folks in
the Linux for PowerPC community, who seem to believe that everyone
should buy a brand-new G4 or iMac to run Linux. That attitude is
a sharp contrast to that of the Intel developers, who make sure
that Linux can run on the 80486 and even older CPUs. Alan Cox is
even working on getting Linux running on 8088s!
Do yourself a favor and go back and read the rest of that thread.
You're *not alone* in running older machines, even though some
people seem to want you to believe you are.
CMC
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C.M. Connelly c@eskimo.com SHC, DS
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