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Hemos
on from the c'mon-and-get-it dept.
Kevie-poo writes "According to LinuxPPC Inc - LinuxPPC R5 started shipping June 10th to CD-ROM customers. LinuxPPC says that they are in the process of upgrading their FTP servers for the download rush expected next week. Check it out at LinuxPPC "
Re:Netscape now on the new lib... Yey!
by
AArthur
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It seems that getting Netscape compatible with the new libs, is what was delaying things and keeping it in the pre release stage.
Hell Yes. Netscape seemed to port the PowerPC-Linux version of Netscape 4.6 to glibc 2.1.1 in about 5 months. Why it took so long, we may never know.
Although, from what else I understand, there is also a Mac Based installer, for installing RedHat!
Well, it's not all a Mac installer. But it's not a RedHat installer. The install process consists of like 5 different installers. The standard one uses a Aladin Stuffit Installer to install Mac OS files in the right place (such as BootX extention, Kernel, Ram-Disk. Then you use BootX to boot into Linux. (That step is skipped if you are using OpenFirmware)
From their you get a perl script that finds a LinuxPPC-1999-Live-Install image on your disk which boots you into a gtk+/X11 based point and click installer. If you don't have the Live-Install image / with OpenFirmware, you just get the old RedHat-type Installer 6.0. Of course if you hate both Live-installer with X/gtk or RedHat-type installer you can always use a command-line perl script installer via. typeing control-z.
The install process is pretty easy to use, although the installer system is pretty big (almost 30 megabytes), not including any RPMS.
The installers (guides) make it definatly more usable.
GNOME seems to work great in LinuxPPC R5, the speed in much improved over LinuxPPC R4 GNOME and Yellow Dog Linux's GNOME.
It's been tweeked and ready to install on your machine now!
Re:bootable with b&w g3s
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IntlHarvester
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On every PC I've ever owned, I've spent a significant amount of time futzing with the retarded 1980s-style hardware settings such as IRQs and IO ports. Fine for me, because I know how to do it, but quite a few people do not (and nor should they have to in this day-and-age,)
So, is being able to avoid this by running Mac hardware worth the couple hundred bucks extra? It is if you look at the market rate for PC hardware technicians.
(What I'd expect, though, is that the Linux/PPC driver support for expansion cards is more limited than x86, so maybe the point is moot.)
Re:bootable with b&w g3s
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IntlHarvester
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Well, I've had my share of troubles even with non-ISA hardware. (PCI IRQ sharing that was broken, PCMCIA modems on IRQ 9, Laptops that ship from the factor with NO free IRQS making expansion impossible, I could go on forever...)
If someone who doesn't understand PC AT IRQs (let's say your average Mac user, even the hardware techs), you honestly expect them to build their own AMD system? --
It does have some ATI support, though it was written for the Mach64 if I'm not mistaken (works just fine on my Rage Pro, and should work on their other chipsets too).
I know it also supports the IMS Twin Turbo (which was popular with the clones) and the Matrox Millennium. Then there are the Control and Valkyrie chipsets (used in older PowerMacs before Apple used ATI's stuff).
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Hell Yes. Netscape seemed to port the PowerPC-Linux version of Netscape 4.6 to glibc 2.1.1 in about 5 months. Why it took so long, we may never know.
Well, it's not all a Mac installer. But it's not a RedHat installer. The install process consists of like 5 different installers. The standard one uses a Aladin Stuffit Installer to install Mac OS files in the right place (such as BootX extention, Kernel, Ram-Disk. Then you use BootX to boot into Linux. (That step is skipped if you are using OpenFirmware)
From their you get a perl script that finds a LinuxPPC-1999-Live-Install image on your disk which boots you into a gtk+/X11 based point and click installer. If you don't have the Live-Install image / with OpenFirmware, you just get the old RedHat-type Installer 6.0. Of course if you hate both Live-installer with X/gtk or RedHat-type installer you can always use a command-line perl script installer via. typeing control-z.
The install process is pretty easy to use, although the installer system is pretty big (almost 30 megabytes), not including any RPMS.
The installers (guides) make it definatly more usable.
GNOME seems to work great in LinuxPPC R5, the speed in much improved over LinuxPPC R4 GNOME and Yellow Dog Linux's GNOME.
It's been tweeked and ready to install on your machine now!
On every PC I've ever owned, I've spent a significant amount of time futzing with the retarded 1980s-style hardware settings such as IRQs and IO ports. Fine for me, because I know how to do it, but quite a few people do not (and nor should they have to in this day-and-age,)
So, is being able to avoid this by running Mac hardware worth the couple hundred bucks extra? It is if you look at the market rate for PC hardware technicians.
(What I'd expect, though, is that the Linux/PPC driver support for expansion cards is more limited than x86, so maybe the point is moot.)
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Well, I've had my share of troubles even with non-ISA hardware. (PCI IRQ sharing that was broken, PCMCIA modems on IRQ 9, Laptops that ship from the factor with NO free IRQS making expansion impossible, I could go on forever...)
If someone who doesn't understand PC AT IRQs (let's say your average Mac user, even the hardware techs), you honestly expect them to build their own AMD system?
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Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.
It does have some ATI support, though it was written for the Mach64 if I'm not mistaken (works just fine on my Rage Pro, and should work on their other chipsets too).
I know it also supports the IMS Twin Turbo (which was popular with the clones) and the Matrox Millennium. Then there are the Control and Valkyrie chipsets (used in older PowerMacs before Apple used ATI's stuff).
After that, I don't know. Have I missed any?
The motherboard can handle up to 700mhz processors. Very good for future upgradability.