Gentoo ppc = just started playing with it. really impressive at first, until you notice, hey this is kind of slower than it seems it should be, and hey, this isn’t working quite right, etc… let yellow dog be the “redhat” in ppc town instead. worked impressively good with my g3, couldn’t get X to even start without spitting a SIGBUS error this time.įedora ppc = awful. worked up to a point, had weird quirks though (I’m not crazy about the distro anyhow)ĭebian ppc = disappointing. seems to be in suspension though in terms of updates from terrasoft (and I’m guessing it’s future (not including the whole HPC thing)) Yellow dog = actually pretty good, lots of stuff works with little pain involved. that said, these last few days I’ve been trying out a bunch on this G4 here (previously had been running a G3). as to the various and sundy plugins, if they provide the source, just try compiling it… most likely the reason they are only providing an x86 version is that that’s the type of machine the author of said plugin had (yeah I guess they could try a gcc cross compile, but I probably wouldn’t even bother with that myself)Īnd if you’re going to bring up DRI support, no there’s none of it in terms of closed drivers, but for supported cards in xorg, it’s just the same as elsewhere:Ġ001:10:14.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R100 QD it’s just a bit of a minor b*tch to get right in compiling it by hand on your own. In that case it should just be a recompile, there is only one source tree (which of course you’re free to download). “(Are we really not worth an hour or two of processor time?)”Īccording to the purveyors of closed source software, the answer is apparently largely yes. To me, this illustrates that many times it can take more than just a compile to make software function properly. In fact, we had a wait for Firefox 1.5 for PPC Linux/OS X to show up.)Īnd again regarding Firefox, if a compile is all it takes, then why are there significantly fewer plugins for Firefox PPC than work on the x86 version? A trip to showed no PPC version avalible for download. Several of us did a fair amount of troubleshooting for noobs who, when Firefox 1.5 didn’t show up in Synaptic, went out to download and install via the command line. Why aren’t Firefox updates for PPC Linux always released on the same day as the x86 version? (As several people from the Ubuntu forums can tell you - that’s not so. Okay so if all it takes is a simple complile to solve the world’s cross processor ills, then why isn’t there realplayer or flash for PPC Linux? (Are we really not worth an hour or two of processor time?) Hum, looks like this runs equally well on x86, PPC, ARM, PA-RISC, Alpha, SPARC and whatever other weird architecture they may throw in.
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