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Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?



On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 17:21 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Aris Monazteriaz <iamaris@gmx.com> wrote:
> > How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4? Can I install programs right away or
> > I have to compile them myself? Can I install Firefox with Flash support?
> > etc..
> >
> 
> You don't have to but if you get the compiler flags right for your cpu
> optimized it will run a lot faster.
> Especially these days more than ever as auto-altivec optimizing has
> been greatly improve with gcc4.5

Do you have any numbers to back that claim?


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