Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.

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

Rogério Brito wrote:

> On Jan 19 2003, Craig Morehouse wrote:
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> > Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard?
> >
> > If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind.
> >    
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> 	Please, forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I see that
> 	lately people are talking more and more about such boards for
> 	PowerPC's and I read a tiny bit (very tiny) about such boards
> 	and they are basically an ATX motherboard with a PPC CPU stuck
> 	on them, right?
>
> 	If that is correct, what would the benefits of using one of
> 	those machines? Is it cheaper than purchasing a x86 system
> 	with equivalent horse-power? Is it just the techno-lust of
> 	using a PowerPC CPU?
>
> 	These are sincere questions. Please educate me.
>
>
> 	Thanks for any comments, Roger...
>
>  
Pardon my grumpyness, but isn't that a pretty dang stupid question to 
ask on the debian-powerpc list? ;-)

Seriously, these boards are the same as used in the AmigaOne, and some 
of us happens to like AmigaOS. The fact that Linux is a pretty neat 
secondary OS isn't excactly a problem for me. What is the point of 
buying a Mac? Comes down to much the same reasons, I would guess.