Re: debian-ppc on pismo anyone?
What about: the hugest problem on the PPC is that it takes ages to find out how to boot it? apart from that I see no other problems? my PPC 7600/132 has 4 times the BogoMIPS of my Pentium 1/120 and recompiles the kernel like twice as fast as the Dompaq box.
Gjermund
On torsdag 11. januar 2001 13:11, Sergio Brandano <sb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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