On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote:
The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT,I have a old IBM desktop, don't have the exact model#,handy, it is in "storage" but it was
but I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU.
-Spencer :)
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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Eero Volotinen
<eero.volotinen@iki.fi> wrote:
How about running powerpc under kvm ;)
Eero
29.7.2016 3.54 ap. "Spencer Gordon" <spncrgg@gmail.com> kirjoitti:
Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860
laptop for a while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested
the PowerPC version of Debian on this machine. I would hope to
install Debian, because I don't really want to use Windows HT,
OS/2 Warp, IBM AIX, or Sun Solaris.
Thanks!
-Spencer
from the same time period, a little newer 1998,... and not a "laptop" or think pad,.. but anyway :
http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/
Works, excellent on it, at least it did the last time I used it.
While I had it I also tried Linux Mint 12, in 2007 (aprox) my memory is not that good, it worked, but was "slugish",
You might be ok with : http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/
But really, you would have to just try it. I do not think you will get very good results with the newest version of Debian, current stable, Jessie,...
Perhaps Squeeze, or Wheezy, but I have my doubts.
Just try it, experiment a little.
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