[wplug] PPC Linux

[Patrick Wagstrom]

Also, of note (although I'm lacking a PPC box to test it on), is that
Ubuntu, the new debian based distro from Canonical (funded by Mark
Shuttleworth of Thawte and first African in space fame) supports PPC. 
I've been very impressed with Ubuntu for running my MythTV box.  It's
still debian in the core, but ships with more up to date software, like
Gnome 2.8 and a 2.6 series kernel.

It's an encouraging distro because so many of the GNOME, Python, and
Debian hackers being paid to work on it.

You can more info at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/

--Patrick


On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 21:59, Michael E Uhl wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> I think we'll give Debian a whirl, but we'll probably try a live-cd
> first just to make sure we can get everything to work.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> -Michael
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 17:28, Eric C. Cooper wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 04:16:15PM -0400, Michael E Uhl wrote:
> > > A friend of mine has an iMac (Summer 2000 edition) and he's thinking
> > > about loading linux on it.
> > 
> > I also use Debian, on an oldworld pmac and on a Cube.  Your friend
> > might want to try one of the live-CD versions of linux first.  There's
> > a Knoppix-based one and a Gentoo-based one, at least.