Re: LinuxPPC vs. RedHat???

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:

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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>

Is the Debian distribution a working distribution now?  I'd gotten the
impression that it was still a work-in-progress.

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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 )

Heheheh


David


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