Re: [BLUG] .ppc (was Laconica, Enlightenment, and LFS)

I know is this is a LUG (versus a BUG), so flame away if you want ...

Have you ever run NetBSD on a PPC? Server-wise I found it to be far superior than linux (I was comparing it to Gentoo). It is (or at least was) a real hassle to install.

--Kirk

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Steven Black <blacks@indiana.edu> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:47:14AM -0400, Kirk Gleason wrote:
> I tried to install YDL on an XServe G4 a while back, and the installer
> would kernel panic. I did try Ubuntu as well (back when their PPC
> stuff was pretty up to snuff), and I had problems with the media.

I've had good luck with PPC Debian. I've been lax on updating it
to the latest release, but Debian does support the widest range of
CPUs for a Linux distro right now:

   alpha, amd64 (also Intel's EM64T), arm, armel (using ARM EABI)
   hppa, i386, ia64 (Intel's first 64-bit architecture),
   mips, mipsel (MIPS little-endian),
   powerpc, sparc

   s390 is also supposed to be currently supported
   m68k had official support dropped for Debian 4.0

This really makes Debian the NetBSD of Linux distributions. (Though it
doesn't support as much as NetBSD -- NetBSD currently formally releases
for 53 architectures. Their motto is "Of course it runs NetBSD!")

Personally, I don't know why anyone would want to boot from media more
than once per distro installation. Any distro worth its salt should
support a complete upgrade without booting from media.

> I think I can still get some use out of the things, but man are they
> old. One of those might actually make a great linux based DMS ...

The right distribution makes a world of difference. Any of the older CPU
families tends to want lighter-weight choices than some of the "we've
made your choices for you" Desktop/Enterprise distros.

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