debian vs linuxppc

1999-01-10 Thread mis
Hello all. I'm brand new to this list and don't even have debian... yet. I'm running linuxppc for now. Already switched from MkLinux. Machine: PPC 7200/120 48M RAM. My main interst in Linux operating system could be justified by the desire to use some of the audio apps available for linux. Hen

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Jan 09, 1999 at 09:49:53PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > Seeing that we were stuck with ancient versions of glib and gtk for the > powerpc, while other platforms were having binaries of the latest, I have > created binaries of both glib 1.1.12 and gtk1.1.12 for the powerpc. > S

RE: debian vs linuxppc

1999-01-10 Thread Shaleh
> > My main interst in Linux operating system could be justified by the > desire to use some of the audio apps available for linux. > Hence the first question : how's the sound working on debian (and MIDI > if any). > Hope I am not wrong here. Debian (and other Linux dists) use the same Linux

RE: debian vs linuxppc

1999-01-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > > > My main interst in Linux operating system could be justified by the > > desire to use some of the audio apps available for linux. > > Hence the first question : how's the sound working on debian (and MIDI > > if any). > > > > Hope I am not wrong here

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-10 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > You noticed there how much time is involved in being a developer. Add > that in to how few developers have powerpcs and how busy we are outside > of the project. I'm not offended, but it's not going to make me more > active, either. Also, the past

Re: debian vs linuxppc

1999-01-10 Thread Randy Gobbel
On 10-Jan-99 at 09:24, Konstantinos Margaritis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > > > > > > My main interst in Linux operating system could be justified by the > > > desire to use some of the audio apps available for linux. > > > Hence the first question : how

Re: glib 1.1.12, gtk1.1.12 for debian/ppc

1999-01-10 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 04:38:18PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > You noticed there how much time is involved in being a developer. Add > > that in to how few developers have powerpcs and how busy we are outside > > of the project. I

Re: debian vs linuxppc

1999-01-10 Thread mis
Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > > Actually it is a little more complicated than that. Audio in Linux is not > that strong, and it is not yet IMHO, something that lures users to the > Linux world, and I have yet to hear someone that has running MIDI > running on a ppc-based linux. Not to under

re: debian vs linuxppc/sound

1999-01-10 Thread mis
> Randy Gobbel wrote: > > > > > > > Actually there are now some very nice audio drivers for Linux, not yet a > > standard part of the system but they work fine. The name for this set of > > drivers is ALSA, for "Advanced Linux Sound Architecture", and they provide > > full-duplex operation and