On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Mark wrote: > 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 think the real difference is with things (like flash) that are proprietary and are supported in debian through either non-free or not at all. There you will find the real differences IMVHO. It's been a couple of years since I had debian running on a couple of ppc iMacs, and it certainly worked just fine for most things, but the lack of flash was a killer for my kids :( (I try to teach them, but there's only so much one can do...) A
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