On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > Debian on PPC is almost unheard of. Being more public would be good :) > > How can i/we do this? Working fulltime on this for nothing isn't always funny.
No, no it isn't. > Debian is sometimes slow, but we do it right(TM) :-) As long as fixes get integrated in the package themselves.. :) > Debian is not -- as for an example linuxppc -- only a distribution for one > architecture. Debian ist big, many packages and arch-types. If we fix a > bug in one package for one arch we must often fix this bug also for the > others archs (in a different way). > > Many maintainer means also many different meanings, but this is good > for the best conclusion. This does have it's downsides as well tho. When a problem came up when we were doing the ref. release, we patched it and checked into our CVS. The process isn't quite as quick on debian. Although when you fix a generic bug, everybody benefits, and vice versa. > Debian ist non-profit, but sometimes i wish that someone donates me an > pbook (1) (for pcmcia testing), isdn cards, ethernet cards, more ram > :-), cd-writer, more knowledge about OF (OF books), other machines then > chrp or only a set of cd-r 's. I cannot test usb or bootx. I'ld like to > have a better setup (boot-floppies) and better support for the X11 > configuration. But this all needs time. Some of this is hard to do (OF) others just take time. > What i like to have -- for all Subarchs -- is > > - one bootloader (quik, milo, plilo or what ever) This is a stickler. All the old PCI-pmacs can boot OF, some it's just a lot harder (rev1 and 2 beige G3s). New machines (iMac, B&W) have a new OF we don't quite "get" yet. Then some PReP need PPCBUG, etc.. > - one fdisk with msdos + hfs(2) support This is something we'd all like to see (amiga fs support too). > - cd-rom autoboot support This can be done for some machines. The ref release CD image coudl boot PReP machines. New Apple machines could be OF booted off a cdrom (once we figure it out). No clue if this is doable on the older PCI macs. --- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
