Re: LinuxPPC vs. RedHat???

On 1/3/00 8:28 pm, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org was
inspired to say:

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John L Grantham wrote:

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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.

Define "working". :-)

Seriously, my impression (admittedly I haven't tried Debian yet, though I
have no pressing need to do so--even though I would like to try out
apt-get...) is that it's working, but still officially in beta.

Statement from Debian: "Debian/PowerPC is considered to be stable as of
February, 1998, and is currently being consolidated for release. More
than 90% of the Debian packages are available, with the remaining
packages being processed. Debian/PowerPC will be officially released with
the next version of Debian (2.2; code-named potato)."

Speaking of which, would apt work on a Red Hat-based distro at all?

cya

John

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John L Grantham wrote:

On 1/3/00 8:28 pm, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org was
inspired to say:

quoted

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

Define "working". :-)

Seriously, my impression (admittedly I haven't tried Debian yet, though I
have no pressing need to do so--even though I would like to try out
apt-get...) is that it's working, but still officially in beta.

Yep.

Statement from Debian: "Debian/PowerPC is considered to be stable as of
February, 1998, and is currently being consolidated for release. More
than 90% of the Debian packages are available, with the remaining
packages being processed. Debian/PowerPC will be officially released with
the next version of Debian (2.2; code-named potato)."

The main difficulty is installing it. Once the initial base system is
installed, everything works fine.

Speaking of which, would apt work on a Red Hat-based distro at all?

No.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

		    Geert (extracted Debian base.tar.gz somewhere in 1997)

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