Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2269 mails)

[mha@xxxxxxxx (Michael Hasenstein)]

Paul Talacko wrote:

> I've actually been getting into Debian.  Only on a Mac at the moment.  I
> was completely fed up with LinuxPPC which promised easy install, but too
> much was broken.  Now, *all* PPC distributions have bad reputations,
> basically because there isn't a large enough installed base to do the
> debugging.  But at least with Debian they don't bull%$*& you. Debian is
> for the hard core - you don't expect it to be easy to set up and it isn't.
> I installed it some two weeks ago and still haven't got the system running
> like I want it (can't get innd to start and wwwoffle won't start properly
> on boot up - but I will sort this out, eventually. I also haven't figured
> out to patch the kernel to support nfs). It even took me a whole two days
> to find out why no one could log in via xdm (reason: Xauthority files
> weren't set up properly).
> 
> Hey, but I expected it, and I still appreciate Debian's lack of bull. And
> unlike on LinuxPPC, emacs doesn't seg fault.
> 
> Besides Debian has a package manager to die for.  APT 4 FOREVER!!
> 
> I do miss rc.config, though :-)

So why don´t you try SuSE Linux for PowerPC? Runs on Apples and on IBM
(e.g. RS6000). We´ve quite a lot of Apple machines in our offices. Some
people even have Powerbooks - running SuSE Linux, of course.
Occasionally I misuse one of the G4´s and boot into MacOS - to connect
my digital camcorder via firewire. It just works, don´t know if there´s
something for Linux. I don´t want to spend any time for researching
this, just need the videos on harddisc...


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