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[Raymond Russell]

On 6/8/03 19:59, "Jerry McBride" <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
>> They are also working on bringing Portage to the OSX platform.
>> 
>> I tried the Live CD  it was ok but it does not setup networking or the X
>> server.  I wish it were more like Knoppix but its good for first release.
>> Yellow Dog is still the best for PPC Linux in my opinion.
>> 
> 
> Gentoo won't drag Xfree off the portage server, unless you want it. As for
> networking, did you happen to visit gentoo.org and follow the associated
> install instructions? Works for me... There may even be a mac in my future...
> running Gentoo ofcourse.
> 
> Would you care to post your bogomip number off the Mac box running yellowdog?
> I'd like to compare it to what I'm gettig off my XP2000+...


Actually X is on the CD its simple to configure it but it would have been
nice to have it setup right off the bat.  I know my way around Linux so it
was no problem for me to get the X server and the network up.

My Yellow Dog box is lowly 7100/80 I doubt the bogomips are any where near
the Athlon XP2000+.  Currently the Mac platform has been hampered by
Motorola's PowerPC road map.  Next month new machines based on IBM's Power4
with Altivec should start shipping.

My other two machines are lowly G3 based machines one is a 350 MHz iMac and
the other is a 700 MHz iBook.  Both of these machines run OSX 10.2.6.  I ran
the Gentoo Live CD on the iBook with no problems.  I don't think Linux will
be able to replace OSX on these machines for me, I will leave Linux on the
7100 and my x86 machines.


-- 

Ray Russell
Mac OS X 10.2.6