The easy answer to this query is: How many used Macs are/will be coming on the market? That's where the numbers will be.
I have a Mac G4-350MHz, and with lenny was able to get 760Mflops from the BLAS/ATLAS libs via AltiVec. Squeeze appears to run well, though the GAMESS molecular modeling program has some SIGILL issue (may well be my own oversight - still testing.) Also I recently purchased a (used) G5-2.3GHz-2Core. Probably MANY of these units will be coming on the market as leases expire, etc. An earlier post appears to be completely correct: Debian on the 64-bit architecture does not seem to be well supported. The unix-ish part of the machine seems to run quite well (and FAST!), but high-order features - mainly nouveau - are nowhere near working, so I have to ssh into it and run exclusively via command line. Alas, most of these G5 Macs have the GeForce 6600 card, and may be condemned to inadequate nouveau support -or- purchase of a non-nVidia graphics card. Cordially, Dave --- Dr. David Adcock Lone Star Biotechnologies www.lonestarbio.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
