Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

2010-03-31 Thread Jeroen Diederen
Long time ago I had Gentoo installed on a PowerBook G4 Titanium. It was optimized for that machine. I then installed other distributions and I did not see much improvement. Maybe nowadays things might be different. regards, Jeroen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

2010-03-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 17:21 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Aris Monazteriaz wrote: > > How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4? Can I install programs right away or > > I have to compile them myself? Can I install Firefox with Flash support? > > etc.. > > > > You don'

Re: How usable is Debian on PowerBook G4?

2010-03-31 Thread Frank J. R. Hanstick
Hello, Does this mean that Debian for G4's should not to be supported? On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Gary wrote: Robert Chamberlain wrote: Linux on the PPC seems to be just for people wanting to use old PPC computers for servers etc... Have you priced out new PPC hardware lately? It's