Re: Apple vs. IBM: Final Post

1999-08-05 Thread Jeramy B Smith
http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1015836,00.html bad link, sorry. Story is linked properly at linuxtoday.com

wanted: loaner machine or imac install walkthough for linuxworld

1999-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
I'd like to have a powerpc box at our booth at linuxworld expo. The expo's next week. Kachinatech is willing to pay shipping both ways if someone wants to loan me a machine for next week. Alternitatively, they can get ahold of an imac. Is it possible to install debian on one, and can someone

Re: Debian PowerPC/Joys Woes

1999-08-05 Thread Justin McKillican
Does anyone else have problems with Wmaker out of Potato? I'm running an iMac rev C here, changing workspaces through the clip or shortcut keys will definately crash the Wmaker every time. I remember this issue was brought up about a month ago, someone had a patch for it, something issue

[ANN] BootX 1.1.2 released

1999-08-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
The new BootX is finally here, it's at http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/BootX_1.1.2.sit. This version contains various fixes, including the B3/iMac/Lombard sound disabled problem (application) and the G3 screen resolution problem (extension). I've fixed a rare problem in the extension that could

Re: [ANN] BootX 1.1.2 released

1999-08-05 Thread Hartmut Koptein
The new BootX is finally here, it's at http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/BootX_1.1.2.sit. Thanks for the new version. Note to distribution makers (especially Debian): The archive is still compressed with Stuffit (proprietary), I'm looking for a simple and efficient way of compressing Mac

BootX 1.1.2 in a tarball

1999-08-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Ok, I finally followed Brad Midgley suggestion to make a tarball of the BootX folder copied to a netatalk volume. So you have a tarball containing all the .AppleDouble stuffs. You can get this back intact on MacOS (with resource forks, type/creators, ...) only by mounting it over the network via

Re: Debian PowerPC/Joys Woes

1999-08-05 Thread Lee W. Kuo
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Justin McKillican wrote: Does anyone else have problems with Wmaker out of Potato? I'm running an iMac rev C here, changing workspaces through the clip or shortcut keys will definately crash the Wmaker every time. I remember this issue was brought up about a month