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SuSE For PPC

Posted by timothy on from the how-SuSE-it-is dept.

Maktoo writes: "According to MacCentral, the June 2000 issue of MacTech magazine will include a CD containing a 'SuSE for PowerMac' Linux distribution. The full distribution will be available from SuSE at that time as well. It's nice to see SuSE coming to the PPC market!" It'd also be nice to see some less expensive PPC systems.

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  1. When will Red Hat join? by Menthos · · Score: 4
    Red Hat has Sparc, Alpha and i386 ports. But not PPC. That keeps wondering me. There are a lot more PPC systems in the world than there are Alphas or Sparcs...

    I think that if SuSe finally decided that they should port to PPC, Red Hat will soon be following. I don't know if they will port themselves, though. Maybe they'll just buy LinuxPPC. Seems like a logical move to me.

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    GNU/Linux. The Freshmaker.

  2. Cost for PPC Systems by Eidolon · · Score: 4

    It's been said many times here. Here we go again:

    PPC systems are NOT significantly more costly than their Intel counterparts.

    By the time you factor in the fancy case, motherboards with actual engineering (!) and the exotic (and in many ways superior) microprocessor, how exactly are you paying so much more for one of these machines? The iBook is the best example. The closest thing to it in terms of features and performance is a certain ThinkPad model, which costs several hundred US dollars *more*.

    Of course, if you want to run Windows, you don't have much choice. But how many /.ers are going to admit to wanting to run Windows? ;-)

    You can run NetBSD or Linux on a Mac. Some poster above felt native Linux didn't run much faster than emulated Linux... I want some of whatever he's smoking. egcs produces the best-optimized code for the PPC architecture (as well as most others), and all of LinuxPPC is compiled with it (since origina-flavor gcc generates brain-damaged code for PPC). It's *really fast*. I know it's meaningless, but close to 500 Bogomips on my wimpy old upgraded-to-300 MHz-G3 box, with teeny 512K cache and slow 45 MHz bus.

    I bought this machine in 1995, and have only spent a couple hundred bucks on upgrades to stay fairly current. Anyone playing Q3A on their 1995 PC? If so, let's hear from you.