On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:09:42PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm very unfamiliar w/ the PPC architecture, but a friend has a laptop > he'd like me to install a Linux distro onto. Debian offers a powerpc > version on the downloads page. Can I expect this to contain all the > same packages as the i386 version?
Barring a few packages, which may be i386 only or which may not work with PowerPC systems, you can expect the same list of packages as on x86 for PowerPC. Extra info: There is a system for "architecture qualification", based on which release managers decide whether an architecture will be supported for a release or not. See http://release.debian.org/squeeze/arch_qualify.html for details. > Are there any other distros I should investigate for Linux on PPC? My > friend has never used Linux, and would like to use the laptop mainly for > internet and email. I swear by Debian. But I believe Fedora has support for PowerPC. Ubuntu has dropped official support, but you might still be able to use it. You can find a list here, with more details. http://penguinppc.org/about/distributions.php HTH. Kumar -- I've seen people with new children before, they go from ultra happy to looking like something out of a zombie film in about a week. -- Alan Cox about Linus after his 2nd daughter
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