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Re: debian-ppc on pismo anyone?



 Hi Michel,

>> as the debian-ppc port is quite new, are there any known problems I should
>> know about?
>
>The powerpc port has matured very much in the past months (thanks to Dan and
>everybody!), there's no big difference to i386 anymore. But I'm sure I forget
>about some problems which may come up when installing. ;) Anyway, as your
>setup looks very safe against getting completely broken in the progress, you
>should always be able to ask back here if they should show up.


There is still the problem that "linux", for some companies, is gathered
together with "intel", so that adobe, IBM and netscape do not distribute
their software for linux alpha and ppc, for example. Although there are
replacements for acroread, I would still like to use the original one,
IBM via voice has no equivalent, and linux i686 has now the new netscape
version 6, while we are stuck to a very old version 4.7. Yes, there is
Mozilla around, but Netscape has facilities that Mozilla does not have
and we all need.


 Sergio



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