Re: PPC linux

1998-06-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 09:17 -0700 1998-06-03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are 3 motorola PPC boxes here gathering dust now that they are
Windows NT orphans.  I don't know what the model number is but they are in
standard mini-tower cases with PCI/ISA mother boards with SCSI drives.
What linux distribution would support them?

At this point, the only choice is the RedHat-based LinuxPPC,
http://www.linuxppc.org. Those are probably PReP boxes, so LinuxPPC
should support them just fine.

Eventually Debian/powerpc will support them too, but right now we are still
working on the base system for Power Macs.
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Joel Espy Klecker
Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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PPC linux

1998-06-03 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
There are five PPC subarchitectures of Linux:

 * CHRP-compliant PowerPC machines
 * PCI-based Power Macs
 * PReP-compliant PowerPC machines
 * Amigas with PowerPC upgrade cards
 * 8xx embedded systems PowerPCs

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There are 3 motorola PPC boxes here gathering dust now that they are
Windows NT orphans.  I don't know what the model number is but they are in
standard mini-tower cases with PCI/ISA mother boards with SCSI drives.
What linux distribution would support them?



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