Re: debian-PPC powerbook laptop support.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 02:50:39AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hi David
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:29:14AM -0600, David Smoot wrote:
> > What (if anything) do I give up by blowing out Mac OS X entirely and going
> > to Debian-PPC on my powerbook?
You won't probably be able to play *all* .wmv files: xine, that is its ppc
version, is able to play some, but not all of them. Some plugins,
e.g. Macromedia Flash Player, are not available for powerpc, if I'm
not mistaken.
HTH
Best Regards
Wolfgang
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > So I am at a decision point. I've already lost about 5 months of data
> > anyway.
> > I can forget linux on my laptop and just set up mac os X (most expedient but
> > it does not get me any closer to my long term goal of becoming more linux
> > fluent)
> > I can set my system back up as dual boot (most work but most flexible)
> > I can throw away OS X and go full linux.
> > [ ... ]
>
> [ ... ]
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