Thanks! -Spencer :)
*Be yourself, * *nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.* *-Snoopy* On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:45 PM, limpia <lim...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote: > >> The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, >> but I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU. >> >> -Spencer :) >> >> _Be yourself, _ >> _nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong._ >> _-Snoopy_ >> >> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Eero Volotinen >> <eero.voloti...@iki.fi> wrote: >> >> How about running powerpc under kvm ;) >>> >>> Eero >>> >>> 29.7.2016 3.54 ap. "Spencer Gordon" <spnc...@gmail.com> kirjoitti: >>> >>> Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860 >>>> laptop for a while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested >>>> the PowerPC version of Debian on this machine. I would hope to >>>> install Debian, because I don't really want to use Windows HT, >>>> OS/2 Warp, IBM AIX, or Sun Solaris. >>>> Thanks! >>>> -Spencer >>>> >>> I have a old IBM desktop, don't have the exact model#,handy, it is in > "storage" but it was > from the same time period, a little newer 1998,... and not a "laptop" or > think pad,.. but anyway : > http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/ > Works, excellent on it, at least it did the last time I used it. > While I had it I also tried Linux Mint 12, in 2007 (aprox) my memory is > not that good, it worked, but was "slugish", > > You might be ok with : http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/ > > But really, you would have to just try it. I do not think you will get > very good results with the newest version of Debian, current stable, > Jessie,... > Perhaps Squeeze, or Wheezy, but I have my doubts. > Just try it, experiment a little. > -- > >
