What about: the hugest problem on the PPC is that it takes ages to find out how to boot it? apart from that I see no other problems� my PPC 7600/132 has 4 times the BogoMIPS of my Pentium 1/120 and recompiles the kernel like twice as fast as the Dompaq box.
Gjermund On torsdag 11. januar 2001 13:11, Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Michel, > >>> as the debian-ppc port is quite new, are there any known problems I should >>> know about? >> >>The powerpc port has matured very much in the past months (thanks to Dan and >>everybody!), there's no big difference to i386 anymore. But I'm sure I forget >>about some problems which may come up when installing. ;) Anyway, as your >>setup looks very safe against getting completely broken in the progress, you >>should always be able to ask back here if they should show up. > > >There is still the problem that "linux", for some companies, is gathered >together with "intel", so that adobe, IBM and netscape do not distribute >their software for linux alpha and ppc, for example. Although there are >replacements for acroread, I would still like to use the original one, >IBM via voice has no equivalent, and linux i686 has now the new netscape >version 6, while we are stuck to a very old version 4.7. Yes, there is >Mozilla around, but Netscape has facilities that Mozilla does not have >and we all need. > > > Sergio > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
