Mandrakelinux 10.1 Out For PPC

joestar writes "Less than two weeks after the release of Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official for x86, Mandrakelinux 10.1 for PPC has been released! The interesting news is that this version of Mandrakelinux is now a community-driven project. This means that Mandrakesoft is not anymore behind the PPC port. Hardware requirements and release notes are available online at Mandrakelinux WiKi. Any volunteer for SPARC & Alpha?"

Dont forget the Other PPC platform as well.

[sethstorm]

Does this kind of support extend to the RS/6000 or pSeries line? Not every PPC machine is a overchromed box or an upgraded Amiga, and there's some nice hardware that could use some more distribution support other than the quad digit priced varieties.

Re:good or bad

[Stevyn]

Any contribution is good. Linux for PPC isn't as actively developed for x86, so this only helps the situation. Mandrakesoft probably just can't justify the money spent for PPC, so it's not worth it for them to pursue it.

Re:wwhhyy?

[Anonymous Coward]

But its slow, the gui can't do half of what KDE/Gnome can do, and all my apps are X11 apps so it doesn't really make sense to run an Xserver over the top of a GUI system and then put another one on top of that......
OSX is good, but only if you use it like a mac...

Numbers, please

[xiaodidi]

But its [sic] slow, the gui can't do half of what KDE/Gnome can do, and all my apps are X11 apps so it doesn't really make sense to run an Xserver over the top of a GUI system and then put another one on top of that...... OSX is good, but only if you use it like a mac...

If find Apple's X11 to be quite comparable with "native" varieties on PPC or x86. X11 used to be awful on a Mac until Apple got things goings. Similar story as with the Safari browser. I use production X11 apps on Linux and OS X, so I should be able to tell.

Granted, I would like to run KDE *with* Apple's X11, to have a more comparable environment with my Linux installation (indeed to ease the transition *away* from Linux).

Re:Opendarwin

[sparkster812]

I sort of agree on the OS 9 thing... Linux applications are still being developed, while software for OS 9 generally is not, especially in the case of modern web browsers. I personally like the classic Mac OS, and it's rather snappy on my machine, but the browser problem is the thing that just makes it less appealing.

Just because your system can't run OS X definitely does not mean it is useless.

I have used OS X plenty of times on older G3-based hardware [I run 10.3 on a 600Mhz snow iBook] and one of the biggest bottlenecks is RAM and video. You can speed up OS X on the iMacs by adding RAM and running in a 16-bit video mode, although this is kind of frustrating. With the B&W G3s, just pop in a bunch of RAM and a new video card. Viola! OS X lives!

Or of course you could by a new Mac. Ahhh, freedom of choice!