[wplug] PPC Linux

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Tue Sep 28 01:47:30 EDT 2004


On Monday 27 September 2004 15:44, Vanco, Don wrote:
<snip>
> >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/
>
>  Haven't tried a new distro in a while so this sounds fun.  Any
> idea what the i386 version is compiled for?  Or is it actually i386??

/. to the rescue:
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/09/27/201202.shtml

-A


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