Re: General LinuxPPC question ...

2004-05-30 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 29/05/04, Marcin Kurek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The question is why use Linux on PowerPC and not on x86 architecture ? I > think there is no way to avoid such question durning the show and currently > I can't answer to it. Of coz I know the good sides of PowerPC CPU's (low > power consumptio

Re: General LinuxPPC question ...

2004-05-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 linux also has vastly superior hardware support. eg. Any usb device supported by linux can be run on my debian ibook. macosx doesnt even really come close. this hardware compatability extends into pci as well (linux supports many more sound, network

Re: General LinuxPPC question ...

2004-05-29 Thread Lee Braiden
Marcin Kurek wrote: The question is why use Linux on PowerPC and not on x86 architecture ? I think there is no way to avoid such question durning the show and currently I can't answer to it. Of coz I know the good sides of PowerPC CPU's (low power consumption, AltiVec, fast context-switches) but