From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: John L Grantham Cc: "David A. Gatwood" , linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: LinuxPPC vs. RedHat??? In-Reply-To: Message from John L Grantham of "Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:31:28 +0100." <12QEqB-1C1jJQC@fmrl00.sul.t-online.de> References: <12QEqB-1C1jJQC@fmrl00.sul.t-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:07:14 -0800 From: Renaud Dreyer Message-Id: <20000301200714.D5165381A8@bourbaki> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > > On 1/3/00 8:28 pm, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org was > inspired to say: > > > > >On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John L Grantham wrote: > > > >> On 1/3/00 6:17 pm, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org was > >> inspired to say: > >> > >> > > >> >On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Info wrote: > >> > > >> >> I need to buy a workstation for Linux development (C++,JAVA,PERL,etc) > >> >> and would like to buy a Mac instead of Wintel. > >> >> > >> >> -Is LinuxPPC 2000 on par with RedHat 6.1? > >> > > >> >That's what all the PPC Linux distros are based on, yes. > >> > >> Not Debian... > > > >Is the Debian distribution a working distribution now? I'd gotten the > >impression that it was still a work-in-progress. > > Define "working". :-) > > Seriously, my impression (admittedly I haven't tried Debian yet, though I > have no pressing need to do so--even though I would like to try out > apt-get...) is that it's working, but still officially in beta. It's working great right now on my PowerMac 7300. The installation was a breeze (it might be a bit more complicated if you have a newer machine though) and it's really nice to have a system that more or less upgrades itself, and is pretty much on par with the Intel (and Sparc, and m68k, and Alpha and...) distribution. > Statement from Debian: "Debian/PowerPC is considered to be stable as of > February, 1998, and is currently being consolidated for release. More > than 90% of the Debian packages are available, with the remaining > packages being processed. Debian/PowerPC will be officially released with > the next version of Debian (2.2; code-named potato)." Potato has been frozen and should be officially released very soon. Ciao, Renaud ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/