> On 12/1/2000 Renaud Dreyer wrote: > > >Ah... Well, I do have BootX and the Linuxppc R5 install on my Mac > >OS partition so it shouldn't be a problem. > > I personally think its a good idea to get direct booting going, bootx > seems to be having more problems with newer kernels, and is working > less and less with newer machines (g4 class) its not too reliable on > my blueg3, for newworld macs use yaboot, for oldworld I think quik > works, BenH is working on something call Miboot for some other macs > too (i think pre OF)
You mean even Nubus machines? That would make one of my friend with a 6100 very happy! > > > pretty much, except debian handles the server differently, instead > > > you edit /etc/X11/Xserver to choose the real server. no symlinks. > > > and i think Xpmac requires a kernel option or hack... > > > >Yeah, there's a "xpmac legacy" option when configuring the kernel under > >Linuxppc, I assume it is the same under Debian. > >I really hope the accelerated Xpmac works under Debian because going back > >to the unaccelerated Rage Orion will not be fun... And the > >accelerated Xfree86 is not as stable or fast as the Xpmac. > > I don't see why i should not work, but I will leave someone else to > comment, im not much up on X issues right now as the blueG3 is pretty > much lost cause for reasonable X use till a server comes out for that > card. Well, the BlueG3 is also using the Rage Orion card so whatever works for me should work for you :) > >Extremely elegant! Since I want to Nextify my box as much as possible, this > >is very important for me. > > so do I, I wish there were more apps for GNUstep, and I am not sure > of some of the few GNOME apps which are interesting can be made to > look NeXTish without using the GNOME/E! bloat center I think GTKStep does that, though I've never used it. > (I prefer > windowmaker for a windowmanager) unfortunately i doubt any theme > will fix the menubars in the window, vertical menus are so much > nicer.... The first thing I did once I installed Linuxppc was get rid of GNOME and install WindowMaker. I like some of the GNOME Apps but I don't want a Windows 98 look-alike, I want a NeXTSTEP look-alike... > > > > > >Ah, something else I wanted to ask... I assume it's easy to chase down > >a specific library after a compile aborts and asks for it? > > dpkg -S whateverfileorpath Relief... I got tired of doing global Usenet and Web searches. > and if that does not work debian has two search engines for the > entire archive one for packages/descriptions, the other for > individual files. I think there is a userspace utility that does > this so you don't have to use bloatscape too, i have not gotten > around to looking at that yet. > > > > > > >I wish I'd knew all of this a month ago, when I installed Linuxppc and > >started to slowly try to fix and optimize everything... Ciao and thanks > >again, > > its amazing how linuxppc has a seemingly good reputation, but yet I > cannot understand the bugs in that distro, I don't wish to really put > them down for there work but they really need to do more testing and > wait longer before releasing, even redhat who has a tendency to leave > bugs in for release does not leave such a high number of frankly > stupid problems... They don't seems to have a good bug reporting problem. I encountered many little problems, and couldn't find references to them. When I ask about them on the mailing list, I sometimes get some help but often it's a fatalistic "Yeah, we know, count yourself lucky, it could be worse". > anyway I am very pleased to have a non redhat alternative for the PPC > arch, now i just wish i could compile a pure kernel from kernel.org > and have it work!! Any idea when 2.4 is coming out? I was reading one of the Linux mags and they were trumpetting it as if it was already out.
