On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:18:06AM +0100, J.Manrique Lopez de la Fuente wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if this begins a flamewar, but some friends of mine are using Gentoo > on their iBooks G4, and they have recommended me to use Gentoo instead of > Debian for my iBook G4. > Despite Gentoo famous emerge system to compile packages, they say that > Gentoo has XFree 4.4 and altivec support for the G4 iBooks that Debian
There is no such thing as XFree86 4.4.0, unless it was released overnight, which i seriously doubt it was. > doesn't have. Is that true? > I've been using Debian for some years in my x86, and some kind of Debian > on my iPAQs, so I am a happy Debian user; but they have semi-convinced me > about Gentoo. > Why should I use Debian on my G4? To save the polar bears ? (the idea being that recompiling everything is a waste of power and dissipates heat, thus contributing to the global warming :)) Friendly, Sven Luther
