Re: LinuxPPC vs. RedHat???

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

It's working great right now on my PowerMac 7300. The installation
was a breeze (it might be a bit more complicated if you have a newer
machine though) and it's really nice to have a system that more or
less upgrades itself, and is pretty much on par with the Intel
(and Sparc, and m68k, and Alpha and...) distribution.

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)."

Potato has been frozen and should be officially released very soon.
Ciao,

            Renaud


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