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?
I've used the PPC version of Debian on an old Mac G4 desktop. Can't vouch for the wireless-related items, but putting that G4 side by side with an old HP i386 desktop, everything in Debian looked the same to me so I would assume you can expect similar results. I installed from the dvd iso downloaded via jigdo if that matters. OpenSUSE supports PPC also, and is actually the first distro I tried on that G4 before smartening up and going with Debian. :) Mark
