Re: MacMini G4, Debian, RunRev

2010-07-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Richmond,

Yes, rev for linux is x86 only I wish they had an ARM port too...

cheers
andre

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:44 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote:

 Having had a mini-adventure yesterday with MorphOS on
 my MacMini [ a sort of back-to-the-future type of experience
 where contextual menus pop up in funny places and the GUI
 behaves neither like the Mac, Win, GNOME, KDE or RISC OS
 GUIs, yet is not slick enough to seem a better bet than the
 minimalist GUIs for Linux - not something I can see myself
 shelling out 111 Euros for], I thought I would entertain myself
 by popping Debian on the machine.

 Having played around with quite a few Debian derivatives, and
 using the derivative - Ubuntu - I started feeling a bit silly during
 recent discussions here than I had never tried out Debian.

 As I don't have a free [ take note those who were getting confused
 about the meaning of the word 'free'; this is free as in 
 - freely available -, not ?; I paid for the thing! ] PC I will
 try it out on the MacMini [Um . . . Safari says it will take about
 1 hour and 45 minutes to download the DVD].

 However, I have a feeling that RunRev for Linux won't on PPC
 Linux [ it certainly wouldn't on Ubuntu PPC a while back ].
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MacMini G4, Debian, RunRev

2010-07-17 Thread Richmond

Having had a mini-adventure yesterday with MorphOS on
my MacMini [ a sort of back-to-the-future type of experience
where contextual menus pop up in funny places and the GUI
behaves neither like the Mac, Win, GNOME, KDE or RISC OS
GUIs, yet is not slick enough to seem a better bet than the
minimalist GUIs for Linux - not something I can see myself
shelling out 111 Euros for], I thought I would entertain myself
by popping Debian on the machine.

Having played around with quite a few Debian derivatives, and
using the derivative - Ubuntu - I started feeling a bit silly during
recent discussions here than I had never tried out Debian.

As I don't have a free [ take note those who were getting confused
about the meaning of the word 'free'; this is free as in 
- freely available -, not ?; I paid for the thing! ] PC I will
try it out on the MacMini [Um . . . Safari says it will take about
1 hour and 45 minutes to download the DVD].

However, I have a feeling that RunRev for Linux won't on PPC
Linux [ it certainly wouldn't on Ubuntu PPC a while back ].
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