"EB" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "WT" == Werner Teeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
EB> frankly i would suggest selling the damn thing and getting EB> a newworld box (a used imac or something) nobody is testing EB> kernels on 7200's and nobody other then Dan seems to give a EB> damn whether quik works or not. oldworld macs are a total EB> nightmare for running GNU/Linux. WT> Maybe true, but not really a moral booster. Not only not a morale booster, but also very much untrue. I've been running Debian on a PowerCenter 132 (based on the Catalyst motherboard, just like the 7200) since June of last year. It runs just fine. It's reasonably fast, it's stable, and it's very functional. I have decent video, at a higher resolution than I could get with MacOS (1152x864, 24-bit color). Sound works (both input and output), although there are still problems with some of the tools I'd like to use. (Dan Jacobwitz has one of these machines, too -- he won it from the LinuxPPC folks by cracking into it.) Yes, I use BootX, but so what? There's still no replacement for Illustrator or Photoshop that runs under Linux, and those tools are irreplaceable. Maybe my partner and I are crazy, but we can't see any reason to throw away perfectly decent machines and spend a fortune on a new machine that will be obsolete before its unpacked. (Our nine-year-old NeXTstation is still going strong, and the dual- 133MHz Pentium PC we bought for $150 last year is ticking away happily, too. Our newest visitor is a PowerTower Pro 225.) I have to say I'm amazed by the attitudes of some of the folks in the Linux for PowerPC community, who seem to believe that everyone should buy a brand-new G4 or iMac to run Linux. That attitude is a sharp contrast to that of the Intel developers, who make sure that Linux can run on the 80486 and even older CPUs. Alan Cox is even working on getting Linux running on 8088s! Do yourself a favor and go back and read the rest of that thread. You're *not alone* in running older machines, even though some people seem to want you to believe you are. CMC +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Behind the counter a boy with a shaven head stared vacantly into space, a dozen spikes of microsoft protruding from the socket behind his ear. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ C.M. Connelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] SHC, DS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
