Re: Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-26 Thread Richard
Apple supports hardware for the duration of your warranty (or the warranty + the AppleCare duration if you've purchased it.) They'll continue to do that even during the Intel transition and after. With AppleCare you've got a guaranteed 3 years of hardware support. After that time, the comput

Re: Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-26 Thread Jason Self
Apple supports hardware for the duration of your warranty (or the warranty + the AppleCare duration if you've purchased it.) They'll continue to do that even during the Intel transition and after. With AppleCare you've got a guaranteed 3 years of hardware support. After that time, the computer is

Re: Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-25 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:30:07 +0200, Richard wrote: > I was just thinking, if I purchase the Mac, may have a problem of > supported hardware for ppc ??? I would go for the AMD64 machine, given its compatibility with IA-32 (that comes in handy) and the low cost. Please note I have no clue whatsoev

Linux on Mac PPC vs AMD64

2006-05-25 Thread Richard
this may be a slight off subject, however, I have a choice to purchase a dual g5 with 4gb of Ram, or build a dual core AMD 64 with 8GB or Ram... the real question here, is longevities. Since Mac is dumping ppc is moving intel, and AMD 64 is moving up the ranks... I was just thinking, if I purchas

[Req. of info] success/failure of booting/running linux on mac powerpcs

2003-04-29 Thread simon raven
any information that isn't on debian's PPC ports pages, or isn't penguinppc's site, or info gathered in the course of experimenting, administering, etc. (i.e., "juicy tidbits of info" as i call them) -- when you have time, can anyone that has this please email me off-list with them? i'm going to

Re: linux on mac

1999-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >i am a mac user trying to acheive a linux operating system on a g3 >powerbook. i was wondering if you had any software on cd's for this? Maybe. I'm not too sure where the Linux powerpc support for G3 is up to right now. Maybe the people on the powerpc