On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 04:48:38PM -0800, nuno romano wrote: > After some months with Debian(3.1PowerPC)I´m > generally comfortable with it: > > -compiling software,and dealing with the different > aspects of the package management system(good stuff!) > > -Connections to the Internet. > > -Printing system: my 70 dollars inkjet prints > documents,photos with quality nearly identical > to a 400 dollars laser printer,with refilled > inkjet cartridges. > > > However,four points: > > -Java: I don´t know which Java Runtime Environment,SDK > is the most effective,the blackdown.org or the > Gnu classpath,gcj,or other.For example,I want to > compile and run JGR a frontend for R(the statistics > software),which needs Java2-1.5,and I think none of > the above JRE,SDKs provides Java2-1.5. > Blackdown´s provide for the PPC Java2-1.3.1. > Do you know why Debian does not ship Blackdown´s > Java? > You probably want to download java-package and get your favorite Sun or IBM JDK. Then you can turn the .bin file into a .deb for your system that you can install locally using `dpkg -i <pkg name>`. > -Macromedia´s Shockwave Flash Player: The possible > solutions,none seems effective for the PPC.I can´t > see Flash content in Mozilla.Do you know of a > method,program to do that effectively?Advice > appreciated. > I use Marillat's sources for Flash and several other packages that can't go into Debian for various reasons. ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat > -Security Enhanced Linux: Is the next release of > Debian(Sid,I think) scheduled to ship a standard > kernel which implements SEL as a LSM? > I believe so, yes. There has been much discussion about SELinux issues on the developer mailing list. > -An encrypted partition: The methods available > dm-crypt,loop-AES,are they effective? > That depends on what you want to encrypt, why and how important it is to have quick/easy access to it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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