[conspire] imac Firewire Enclosure

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Mon Sep 25 17:09:31 PDT 2006


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:33:15 -0700, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:19:30 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
>> Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Grub on PowerPC isn't ready for prime time, and may never really be,
>>> thanks to the development team's past decision to snub Ethan Benson and
>>> his prom-libc project. I don't know that you'd be able to find 6 really
>>> usable distros for PowerPC. 
>> 
>> More to the immediate point, how many does one really need?  ;->
>> 
>> Anyway, here's my bestiary on the subject:
>> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=maclinux#powermaclinux
> 
> I have two immediate replies to the content of that page:
> 1) How is Slackintosh unmaintained when the last news item on its main
> page is dated just 15 days ago?
> 2) Why is it not mentioned that OpenSUSE has fully supported PowerPC since
> shortly after Novell took full control?

3) A year or two ago, I provided PowerPC-specific resources to someone
attempting to install the Arch Linux distro (not to be confused with the
Ark Linux distro), and from what I gathered, the attempt was successful.



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