Re: Debian on PPC

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Subject: Re: Debian on PPC
From: Mark <mamarcac@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:10:58 -0800
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:09:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
> I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop
> he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc
> version on the downloads page. Can I expect this to contain all the
> same packages as the i386 version?

I've used the PPC version of Debian on an old Mac G4 desktop. Can't vouch for the wireless-related items, but putting that G4 side by side with an old HP i386 desktop, everything in Debian looked the same to me so I would assume you can expect similar results. I installed from the dvd iso downloaded via jigdo if that matters.

OpenSUSE supports PPC also, and is actually the first distro I tried on that G4 before smartening up and going with Debian. :)

Mark

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