You say that you would love to run a PPC Linux distro on your powerbook, so why don't you? At this moment, I am writing this on a G3/266 Powerbook in LinuxPPC 4.1. The distibution is a bit weak with some stuff broken, but as a whole, it is great. You really come to love SRPMs after a while when doing this. I use my powerbook to write and run scientific simulation code and it fares quite well against a K6-2 300. I would seriously recomend that you try it. When release 5 of LinuxPPC comes out, it should be quite nice (looking at the pre5 stuff on line) I will leave speed judgements to a minimum because I'm biased (I work on a 1024 Processor Cray T3E)
I agree with you partially on this idea. I think, though, that it would be better for them and for the readers to make a Fortran90 book rather than a FARTRAN77 book. I realize that there are relatively few good FORTRAN77 books out there, though, and that many people (myself included) need more help on 77. Thus, I think the way that they could do this would be to highlight all of the 90 specific text in a different color (like the new IBM Fortran90 Reference Manual). This way, 77 programmers could still use the book, but those who wish to move into a programming language that actually has pointers could easily begin bringing code into the modern era. That said, this is what I am trying to do at my job. I've got 22 years of legacy code the simulates planetary formation. All of the code is a mess and I am going crazy.
Once you get under the hood and discover that any one part on a Honda CRX is not going to work on a Honda Prelude, much less a Mustang, then you learn how much money is generated by aftermarket parts. Why should I have to buy special tools to work on each type of car? Because that is how the world works. I can use any OS pretty well. Linux, however, is the only one that I have the tools to get under the hood and tune up.
If you do this too often our universe as we know it will come to an end. Plus, what if Bill Gates got ahold of such a device and prevented the birth of Linus? Life would suck. Guess I'd be using FreeBSD.
I have a VooDoo2 and STB Velocity 4400 in my box. The reason for this was to make BeOS happy (Didn't like my old Diamond Stealth 64 card. A sad parting in my life). This seems to make Linux, BeOS and Windoze95 happy. My problem is that I now no longer have the spare time to play games. Oh well.
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You say that you would love to run a PPC Linux distro on your powerbook, so why don't you? At this moment, I am writing this on a G3/266 Powerbook in LinuxPPC 4.1. The distibution is a bit weak with some stuff broken, but as a whole, it is great. You really come to love SRPMs after a while when doing this. I use my powerbook to write and run scientific simulation code and it fares quite well against a K6-2 300. I would seriously recomend that you try it. When release 5 of LinuxPPC comes out, it should be quite nice (looking at the pre5 stuff on line) I will leave speed judgements to a minimum because I'm biased (I work on a 1024 Processor Cray T3E)
Joshua Pearson
I agree with you partially on this idea. I think, though, that it would be better for them and for the readers to make a Fortran90 book rather than a FARTRAN77 book. I realize that there are relatively few good FORTRAN77 books out there, though, and that many people (myself included) need more help on 77. Thus, I think the way that they could do this would be to highlight all of the 90 specific text in a different color (like the new IBM Fortran90 Reference Manual). This way, 77 programmers could still use the book, but those who wish to move into a programming language that actually has pointers could easily begin bringing code into the modern era. That said, this is what I am trying to do at my job. I've got 22 years of legacy code the simulates planetary formation. All of the code is a mess and I am going crazy.
Once you get under the hood and discover that any one part on a Honda CRX is not going to work on a Honda Prelude, much less a Mustang, then you learn how much money is generated by aftermarket parts. Why should I have to buy special tools to work on each type of car? Because that is how the world works. I can use any OS pretty well. Linux, however, is the only one that I have the tools to get under the hood and tune up.
If you do this too often our universe as we know it will come to an end. Plus, what if Bill Gates got ahold of such a device and prevented the birth of Linus? Life would suck. Guess I'd be using FreeBSD.
Joshua Pearson
I have a VooDoo2 and STB Velocity 4400 in my box. The reason for this was to make BeOS happy (Didn't like my old Diamond Stealth 64 card. A sad parting in my life). This seems to make Linux, BeOS and Windoze95 happy. My problem is that I now no longer have the spare time to play games. Oh well.
Joshua Pearson