Re: Pondering a mac mini.
the biggest thing is probably wine. If you like to use Crossover
Office for instance, that isn't going to work under PPC.
Anything open source, is available under Debian PPC just the same as
Debian x86. This means, Gnome, KDE, openoffice, mozilla, firefox,
thunderbird, gimp etc.
I've got a G4 ibook with Debian PPC on it, and I like it alot..
however I will say that with Mac OS X being BSD based, I kinda like it
as well. I run a dual boot on it.
I can run most of the open source software on Mac OS AND on Linux PPC.
(I've got gimp for both OSes for example)
you can also run "mol" (Mac On Linux) which allows you to run OS X in
a virtual machine under Linux PPC (with not much of a slowdown given
enough ram)
All in all, my mac makes a very nice Linux box and has the cool OS X
software I can run on it to boot.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:45:26 +0000, Nurulwai <nurulwai@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've been thinking about getting a mac mini to use as my main PC, a
> job currently served by a Duron 1300, running debian.
>
> What I would want to do is install Debian on the Mac Mini.
>
> I know there are PPC binaries for many things in apt, but are there
> any programs that if I was to switch to using a mac mini (mainly due
> to novelty value, and apparently it's quiet - as compared to the
> noisebox I currently use) would I have any serious lack of
> functionality as compared to now? Is there anything important that
> exists on x86 but not on PPC?
>
> I use my main PC for everything except gaming - which is taken care of
> by an athlon XP running windows.
>
> Ta for any answers.
>
> Will.
>
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