On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:37:57PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > You may want to subscribe to the debian-powerpc (or is it debian-ppc?) > mailing list and ask questions there. You're much more likely to hit > someone who's knowledgeable about the iMac platform there. yes indeed, though his problem looks to be a generic install issue rather then a archetecture specific one. > I've been (very very slowly) gathering some information about how to > load Debian on my new iMac DV SE, and have run across a number of issues > that the folks there have been very helpful in trying to track down. > Linux on the PPC platform is a whole new ballgame for me, but it's fun. its certainly rather different, i have some info on the boot setup on my page (see my .sig) www.penguinppc.org is also a good place for distro neutral information. > If you want "seamless" or relatively easy Linux installations on PPC, > the recent reviews of the LinuxPPC distribution have been encouraging. don't believe them. LinuxPPC is the most broken GNU/Linux distribution ever made, and frankly its an embarrassment to the entire movement. sorry but i have spent too much time on irc helping people fix rediculous problems you should (and never do) see in any other distro. > Personally, I will probably continue fighting through trying to get > Debian installed. do so, its WELL worth the effort. > I haven't really gotten very excited about OSX yet, but I do spend some > time in that strange environment these days messing around with it and > seeing what I can break on purpose. I don't think I can stomach their > licensing and strange way they're doing devel on Darwin at Apple and > keeping some of it closed-source, and some open-source. Very odd. OSX is an odd beast, die hard mac users will hate it because it has unix underneath and its not totally hidden (and won't be, i don't think) *nix users will hate it because the *nix layer is limited and broken. people who only know a dabble of *nix and pretty much do everything in windows or macos without any religious attachments to either paradigm will probably like OSX alot, it has just enough *nix for occasional handy uses and the GUI is about even with Windows/GNOME/KDE. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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