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In Depth With Jason Haas And LinuxPPC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

AcaBen writes: "MacSlash's Les Harris did an in depth interview with Jason Haas of LinuxPPC about their upcoming release and enhancements. It also includes some news of his recovery from the bad auto accident (covered by Slashdot) he was involved in, and provides details about how LinuxPPC will compete with MacOS X."

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  1. Re:Admirable effort by Straker+Skunk · · Score: 3

    PPC >> x86

    That goes for architecture design, thermal properties, size, and (alas) price.

    I recently built myself a new workstation. It ended up being AthlonTB-based, but boy did I look hard for a reasonably priced non-Apple G4/CHRP motherboard. The things don't exist. I asked a Motorola rep at LWCE2000 about the company's line of PPC ATX boards. Their most inexpensive model is over a thousand dollars!

    Then again, he said those were made for controlling industrial equipment, so the manufacturing tolerances are a little tighter than necessary for a desktop system. But the rep did say something quite enlightening: the reason you don't see cheap G4 boards is that Apple would never EVER allow MacOS to run on them, and because of that, no one sees a market. It's a damn shame....

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    iSKUNK!
  2. Bad Link, try this one by handorf · · Score: 4

    Try This http://www.macslash.com/articles/00/09/28/1858238. shtml

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    -- IANAEG - I am not an elder god.
  3. Read about Jason's recovery by crisco · · Score: 3
    If you get a chance, read Jason's wife's daily account of his recovery at http://www.linuxppc.com/news/jhaas. (Note: Link currently isn't working for me, my ISP might be having DNS problems).

    I never realized the seriousness of a brain injury until reading it, that guy seems lucky to be alive and still able to comprehend Linux.

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    Bleh!