Re: Do you think Debian will run on this PowerPC board?

[Ole-Egil Hvitmyren <olegil@samfundet.no>]

William Crowshaw wrote:

> This may be good news for people like me who'd rather
> not support Apple by buying their over-priced,
> eye-candy hardware and yet still want to use a
> PowerPC.  The company that produces YDL is selling a
> PowerPC motherboard and complete systems.  Here's the
> link with more information:
>
> http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2280
>
> The article says that it will be supported by, of
> course, YDL, but I'm wondering if it will also run
> Debian -- free, as in freedom, damn it.  The
> motherboard is based on IBM 2000 POP design.  So I
> imagine that it can be supported by Debian.  By hey, I
> could be wrong, so that's why I'm asking here.
>
>  

Well, in case you people don't know, Debian (and Suse) is already 
running on these boards. The same boards are sold in Europe with an 
additional OS (AmigaOS) and are then named AmigaOne.

The Linux kernel isn't ready for the mass market yet, though. But it's 
on the way out now :-)