From: slavek.banko@axis.cz To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 01:40:02 +0100 Subject: Re: [trinity-users] PowerPC
On Friday 27 of March 2015 23:53:44 Larry Stotler wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Tini trin@telekon.org wrote:
If I understand you correctly, how hard is it to get a Mac to run TDE? I know they're both based on Unix.
Any new world PowerMac(iMac and newer and Powerbook G3 Lombard and newer) can run Linux or NetBSD easily. You just need a PowerPC specific port. Debian's is very good. Fedora had a recent PowerMac port as well. I've run Linux on Old World macs as well like the PowerMac 9600 but they are not really viable machines any more. G4s & newer are very usable tho.
Running TDE requires it be recompiled and tested on Mac PowerPC hardware.
Any intel Mac can use the x86/x64 ports so there isn't anything extra needed.
I have been hoping to have time to test it on my iBook Clamshell but haven't had time......
As I mentioned earlier - PowerPC builds are available on alternative apt source 'preliminary-stable-builds'. Because I do not have a real PowerPC hardware (such as PowerMac), I could not perform a real test.
-- Slávek
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Hi,
I bought about 2 years ago an used and inexpensive imac g3 400mhz (the ones with a crt and a colored translucent back), and it works quite well with Debian or Ubuntu for PowerPC, but I had a hard time to configure X.org to get a graphical desktop environment. Once set-up, I only had kind-of frame buffer graphic driver, but the rest of the computer is well supported. The hard disk is half dead, and I don't have much time anymore to play with it...
-Alexandre