shyamal wrote: > After running Linux for nearly 11 years on x86 I finally jumped to > powerpc last month when my AMD motherboard fritzed.... > > Igor> Lastly, If I get a G5 PowerMac, will I be able to unstall > Igor> Debian on it (unstable is fine)? Is there any crucial > Igor> hardware that still doesn't have Linux drivers? > > I bought (rather, my S.O. bought it for me :-) a G5 PowerMac (Dual 2.0 > Ghz) and Debian will now install on it with a recent d-i build (Jan 1, > 2005 onwards I suppose). For me it was an adventure, but it should > work out of the box now. > > I don't believe sound support is available (Debian or upstream > kernels). But it is a matter of time and effort: Apple's Darwin OS is > open source so drivers can always be built from there by some with the > skills to do so. There also seems to be some issue with the > accelerated graphics support, but I don't need that stuff so I'm not > sure.
That's good to know. I think I'll hold my plans for a bit until I hear more about sound support. Are there other things that you've found missing on the G5 compared to the x86 platform? Overall, would you rate your switch as a positive thing? Thanks. Igor P.S.: Please CC. -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
