On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Klaas.
Thank you for your effort. As I am looking for a road forward in view of the fact that Apple dropped their PPC machines from support I selected openSuse. There is a G4 Mini - running openSuse 10.3 and regularly updated. Not used every day but still very well on this hardwar. There is a G5 Dual 1.8 waiting to be useful again, and it has a 11.1 installation but not good. The desktop keeps reloading.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of 11.1. I'm still running 11.0 on my machine. I've installed 11.2 on my son's but he likes KDE4 and I don't.
As for going to 11.2, all the iso's I downloaded wouldn't boot. I'll wait and try the next factory distro as soon as available. In the meantime I am unclear about the factory process. Is it just names like that because it is unclear what the status of the code is? Or some other reason?
Factory is the developement branch. All the Milstones(Betas and Alphas) and snapshots of Facotry at a specific point. So are the Release Candidates. The final version is split off from Factory before the release. Then Factory moves on and becomes the development platform for the next version. So, while 11.2 has kernel 2.30.x(or whatever), Factory will move on to 2.31.x whatever.
By the way, I have used YDL but they don't mention PPC in their latest announcements I think.
Yellow Dog is POWER/PPC ONLY. Always has been. They are selling machines made by their parent company that are G5 based. Power Workstation - http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/powerstation/specs.html Cell based PCIe board - http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/gigaaccel180/ IBM POWER Blades - http://www.fixstars.com/en/products/bladecenter/qs22/ Unfortunately, the Core2 and Core i7's are considered to be much faster overall than the G5's. The Real "Power" chips are the Power5 & Power6 and derivatives. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org