On 02/23/2012 07:30 PM, Kristen R wrote: > List members, Hi Kristen
> I just joined this list after finding it on some Debian website > last night. I just installed Debian on my old Apple G4 PPC. I was > searching for information from a PPC point of view when I found > this women's list. Really, I have to say I got just a little bit > excited. Women in computers isn't all that rare but women in Linux > is much more so! I glanced through the profiles listed and realized > quickly that the women here understand Linux very well. Welcome! > I am new to Debian coming from the Red Hat distributions. And this > is my first Linux install on a PPC. It appears that one of my first > task is to build a custom kernel to support dual processors. I > haven't build a kernel since the old 2.4 days on my server, and > that was on x386 architecture. I should rather think that someone > has already built such a kernel, but I don't know where to find > one. There is a lot of Debian literature which I have been glancing > through. You can install linux-image-powerpc-smp to get the latest multiprocessor kernel (in your installed suite: e.g. stable/squeeze or testing/wheezy) for powerpc. > I didn't join this list seeking PPC assistance specifically. But > rather to commingle with others of like mind. And it's always been > a desire that one day I might join in projects and even get > involved with some development. Although this isn't why I > specifically joined the list either, but it would be cool if things > worked out that way some day That's the spirit! Good luck and don't be afraid to ask for assistance when needed. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f46c165.40...@debian.org
