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Sands Fish

13 Dec 2002 13 Dec '02

7:59 p.m.

I've got a G4 dual-proc here at work. Boss wants me to throw Linux on it. I've been trying to find the best solution for a distro. SuSE seems to be the best choice to me so far, but I want to tap the deep dark depths of the WLUG knowledge before I go making a decision. Little Help? -Sands --------- "An electric toothbrush is an excellent choice if you are such a lazy f##k that you can't even move a toothbrush up and down." __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Scott Venier

13 Dec 13 Dec

9:13 p.m.

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I've never tried it on PPC, but I'm quite happy with Debian on my Alpha. Scott On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Sands Fish wrote:

I've got a G4 dual-proc here at work. Boss wants me to throw Linux on it. I've been trying to find the best solution for a distro. SuSE seems to be the best choice to me so far, but I want to tap the deep dark depths of the WLUG knowledge before I go making a decision.

Little Help?

-Sands

--------- "An electric toothbrush is an excellent choice if you are such a lazy f##k that you can't even move a toothbrush up and down."

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Brian J. Conway

9:18 p.m.

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Yellow Dog seems to be the premier Linux PPC distro. I've also heard good things about Mandrake on the Mac (the latest is 8.2, they're alternating releases versus x86, 9.1 will be next). -b On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Scott Venier wrote:

I've never tried it on PPC, but I'm quite happy with Debian on my Alpha.

Scott

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Sands Fish wrote:

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I've got a G4 dual-proc here at work. Boss wants me to throw Linux on it. I've been trying to find the best solution for a distro. SuSE seems to be the best choice to me so far, but I want to tap the deep dark depths of the WLUG knowledge before I go making a decision.

Little Help?

-Sands

--------- "An electric toothbrush is an excellent choice if you are such a lazy f##k that you can't even move a toothbrush up and down."

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Josh Huber

9:40 p.m.

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Scott Venier writes:

I've never tried it on PPC, but I'm quite happy with Debian on my Alpha.

Debian works quite well on powerpc. I recommend it as well... -- Josh Huber

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Mike Frysinger

14 Dec 14 Dec

5:39 a.m.

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i'd suggest Gentoo cause it works great on ppc ;) -mike On Friday 13 December 2002 14:59, Sands Fish wrote:

I've got a G4 dual-proc here at work. Boss wants me to throw Linux on it. I've been trying to find the best solution for a distro. SuSE seems to be the best choice to me so far, but I want to tap the deep dark depths of the WLUG knowledge before I go making a decision.

Little Help?

-Sands

--------- "An electric toothbrush is an excellent choice if you are such a lazy f##k that you can't even move a toothbrush up and down."

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Sands Fish

16 Dec 16 Dec

2:39 a.m.

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Would Debian or Gentoo be suitable for an enterprise environment? No worries about having it be an open server on the Internet for mail and possibly other MIS-like silliness? Please advise, thanx in advance. :) <x>< --- Mike Frysinger wrote:

i'd suggest Gentoo cause it works great on ppc ;) -mike

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I've got a G4 dual-proc here at work. Boss wants me to throw Linux on it. I've been trying to find

On Friday 13 December 2002 14:59, Sands Fish wrote: the

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best solution for a distro. SuSE seems to be the best choice to me so far, but I want to tap the deep dark depths of the WLUG knowledge before I go making a decision.

Little Help?

-Sands

--------- "An electric toothbrush is an excellent choice if you are such a lazy f##k that you can't even move a toothbrush up and down."

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Josh Huber

3:39 a.m.

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Sands Fish writes:

Would Debian or Gentoo be suitable for an enterprise environment? No worries about having it be an open server on the Internet for mail and possibly other MIS-like silliness? Please advise, thanx in advance. :)

I can't speak for Gentoo, but Debian has served me well in Enterprise environments in the past. Security advisories are prompt, and the stable release of Debian strives to change as little as possible, making it an ideal (IMHO ;) choice for servers. -- Josh Huber

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Mike Frysinger

4:34 a.m.

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On Sunday 15 December 2002 22:39, Josh Huber wrote:

Sands Fish writes:

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Would Debian or Gentoo be suitable for an enterprise environment? No worries about having it be an open server on the Internet for mail and possibly other MIS-like silliness? Please advise, thanx in advance. :)

I can't speak for Gentoo, but Debian has served me well in Enterprise environments in the past. Security advisories are prompt, and the stable release of Debian strives to change as little as possible, making it an ideal (IMHO ;) choice for servers.

GLSA's are released as soon as Gentoo gets wind of them and updating the affected packages usually is just: emerge rsync emerge <pkg> emerge clean as for stability, we've introduced stable/unstable masking which aims to take care of this ... but we do not move as slowly as Debian stable, in fact we try to avoid that kind of non-change ... -mike

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