Adrian:
Just providing feedback on the Debian Sid/PPC install that I ran a couple months back and then today did an apt dist-upgrade that brought in 489 packages. Because the machine has a 933 MHz cpu it doesn't do anything too fast, but it did get through the installation of 432MB of data in about an hour, but there were some errors . . . . I guess it installed the 6.5 kernel, but then did not dpkg it for use, then it showed that 6.3 kernel is "to be removed" but numerous attempts to remove it have failed . . . . I forgot to check uname -a??? for running kernel. Problems with grubieee1275 also, although a grub window opens and boots the system OK . . . . And then an issue with linux-image-powerpc as well have the dist-upgrade error out.
I was hoping that I could use the machine as a
distributed.net "mule" to just slowly kick out some stats, for hours and see how that would work.
But the provided "web browser" is that epiphany?? launches briefly and then crashes. Tried that a couple times. I tried to install "firefox" via console and that had so many unmet dependencies that failed, and same for "chromium" . . . no candidate.
I ran "apt-get -f install" which in the olden day of PPC would clean up a problem install, that errored out as well.
So, there is a GUI, but somewhere in there the kernel got botched up?? or the machine can't support 6.5?? and won't remove 6.3 . . . the machine is very slow in spec, not sure if I could wget the right
distributed.net "ppc" package and install it via console . . . . Ran out of time to mess with it, the lack of a browser kind of cuts down on usefulness, but had that problem with the OSX 10.4 install that was on there and the possibly Lubuntu 16.04??? browsers were almost dysfunctional . . . I think it has 946 MB RAM??? Don't think it has enough kick to run your SidsterPPC system??
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