The bad things:
1. Installing is very messy. For example, fdisk'ing involves figuring out and typing in sector numbers by hand.
2. Getting X to work on the LCD was very messy. My machine used a Rage 128, which was fine, but would always use a funky refresh rate which wouldn't display on the screen. Took a few days to figure that one out.
3. It's tricky to setup anything but Ext2 or Ext3 as your FS. The boot manager 'yaboot' which is equivalent to grub supports XFS, ReiserFS, etc, but you can't create those FS from within the install nor are they in the default kernel. Getting XFS to work involved doing a small installation into what was to be my swap space, recompiling the kernel, then bootstrapping across into the other.
4. Packages often lagged the i386 by a few months.
The people on the Debian PPC mailing list are very good and there are minimal ISOs to get you started. I changed to OS X as I needed an up to date JVM. OSX+Fink does what I need.
-- Michael
On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Jim Cheetham wrote:
I believe that there are a few PPC Linux distros out there, Yellow Dog
rings a bell.
There's been a recent /. thread on pretty much the same subvject, try :-
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/25/2217237
On the other hand, if it's a Unix you are really after, Darwin isn't bad
- just get a recent OSX and you'll be laughing. KDE3.1.1 is available as
a binary release via Fink, and 3.1.2 is in the unstable/source releases.
-jim
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 02:58:42PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:Greets List,
Does anybody run Linux on a recent Mac such as an iBook or iMac?
I'd be very interested in comments about the distribution to use.
Thanks a 10^6
-- C. S.
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