Derick,
The Powermac is used to assist in driver development which is intended
for an embedded platform. Well written Linux drivers should be platform
independed, but there is always some comfort in running things which use
the same kernel version etc as the target platform.
I agree that Linux on Macs is a dying issue. The machine was purchased
used so it did not cost alot. My question about the Raedon was to see if
any knew if the Raedon 8500 driver was better than the "NV" driver. I
know that some ATI cards are much better supported.
The pegasosppc platform looks interesting from a development point of
view. Freescales' largest market is the embedded market, so that would
be helpful for developers. Freescales reference platforms (for their
various processors) are very expensive and difficult to develop on with
the same ease as a workstation.
Thanks,
Jackson
Derick Centeno wrote:
Hi Jackson:
You are probably as aware as anyone else of Apple's plans to move away
from the PPC; implementing this plan as soon as next year.
This puts everyone (or it should) into a re-evaluation of what one is
using the PPC for and does one really one to continue along with PPC
systems. Of course, YDL will remain a PPC Linux OS, but as Apple's OS
will not be there anymore some projects like Mac On Linux will be
immediately affected and quickly cease to be. Likewise OpenOffice.org
for OS X running on PPC is likely to become an increasingly niche
project for the same reason.
To answer your question in general any card closer to the current
year's version is "better" than what originally came with the older
computer model one has. But what about the system bus? That isn't
changing, and so why invest in any card if the data flow isn't
efficient or of practical use in current terms? It really depends on
what is using one's computer for. But as the Mac is NOT the future as
far as PPC systems, then one has to look at Genesi
(http://genesi.pegasosppc.com/), and what Genesi offers is not
terrible. It is actually pretty decent, inexpensive together with a
modern bus, and video card.
Best wishes....
On Jul 18, 2005, at 7:00 PM, Jackson Jones wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I had thought about overheating. I know
Apple has some weird cooling parameters for its machines and it is
possible that Linux may not have that stuff completely covered
(considering Apple is not the most open of companies). The random
shutdowns seemed to happen more frequently with the newer
YDL-2.6.12.2 kernel on www.ppckernel.org/specialized.php, so I
reverted back to the stock 2.6.10-1.
I work in a very good environment for computers. It is well cooled
and not humid. The power is fine. The same configuration runs on a
12" Powerbook without any random shutdown issues.
The Display has trouble waking up, so I keep it on (KDE -> Control
Center->Periphnerals->Display set it to never and save). I also have
an Apple version of a Radeon 8500, is that card better supported than
the Geforce 2 MX that came with the machine?
Thanks,
Jackson
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