On 1/3/00 6:17 pm, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org was
inspired to say:
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Info wrote:
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I need to buy a workstation for Linux development (C++,JAVA,PERL,etc)
and would like to buy a Mac instead of Wintel.
-Is LinuxPPC 2000 on par with RedHat 6.1?
That's what all the PPC Linux distros are based on, yes.
<nitpick>Not Debian...</nitpick>
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-Other than recompiling on wintel for delivery, can anyone see
potential problems with using LinuxPPC in a RedHat shop?
-Any known problems with JAVA tools (JDK, JSDK, Tomcat)?
You mean taking LinuxPPC and trying to rebuild it on x86? Good luck. The
words source compatible tend to be somewhat exaggerated when it comes to
real-world use, especially where RPMs are involved. Just MHO.
Agreed. However, if you want to use LinuxPPC for development for Red Hat,
so long as you have decent cross-compilers I don't see why there would be
a major problem. But Java tools are still pretty much Intel-centric
AFAIK. (Now isn't that an oxymoron...Java on one platform. ;-P )
cya
John
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John L Grantham wrote:
On 1/3/00 6:17 pm, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org was
inspired to say:
quoted
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Info wrote:
quoted
I need to buy a workstation for Linux development (C++,JAVA,PERL,etc)
and would like to buy a Mac instead of Wintel.
-Is LinuxPPC 2000 on par with RedHat 6.1?
That's what all the PPC Linux distros are based on, yes.
<nitpick>Not Debian...</nitpick>
Is the Debian distribution a working distribution now? I'd gotten the
impression that it was still a work-in-progress.
quoted
quoted
-Other than recompiling on wintel for delivery, can anyone see
potential problems with using LinuxPPC in a RedHat shop?
-Any known problems with JAVA tools (JDK, JSDK, Tomcat)?
You mean taking LinuxPPC and trying to rebuild it on x86? Good luck. The
words source compatible tend to be somewhat exaggerated when it comes to
real-world use, especially where RPMs are involved. Just MHO.
Agreed. However, if you want to use LinuxPPC for development for Red Hat,
so long as you have decent cross-compilers I don't see why there would be
a major problem. But Java tools are still pretty much Intel-centric
AFAIK. (Now isn't that an oxymoron...Java on one platform. ;-P )
Heheheh
David
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At 1:28 PM -0600 3/1/2000, David A. Gatwood wrote:
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John L Grantham wrote:
[...]
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<nitpick>Not Debian...</nitpick>
Is the Debian distribution a working distribution now? I'd gotten the
impression that it was still a work-in-progress.
A little while back I went about the proscess of converting my friend's
7600 and PBG3 to Linux. He chose LinuxPPC for the 7600, and I went for
Debian on his PBG3, since I had worked with it a lot in my 68k and
subsequent x86 dealings.
This was before Debian's installer had PowerMac support (which may still be
the case, I haven't checked), so installing the system manually was a bit
entertaining to say the least.
However, after all that was dealt with and the system was installed, it
proved to be (imho) a much better system than his LinuxPPC desktop system.
I never had to search for rpms, every package came with very sane, useable
default configuration files, and pretty much every package I've installed
on that box has worked first try, without any fussing or messing about.
No offense to the LinuxPPC guys here, :) but the difference has been enough
to convince him to get me to install Debian to replace LinuxPPC on his 7600
too.
Cheers - Tony :)
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