On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:58:44AM +0200, Andreas Wüst wrote: > Hi > > > i have an idea on this... how about a small Mac OS application that you > > could d/l and run and it would read the gestalt id and report weather the > > machine will run and what dist minimum to use (i.e Beige G3 would report > > something like 'This machine would need bootx to startup and Dist 2.2r2 or > > newer') this would probly make it easier for people new to linux to decide > > wheather they a) want to try linux and b) a starting point as to what dist > > to try.... > > This would of course be a fine tool, though I am wondering why not to just put > an up-to-date model list up to > http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install.en.html in a first step. > > This list looks extremly outdated to me (no to talk about the 'tested' > column).
because that comes from boot-floppies, and boot-floppies are updated very rarly. thats from potato boot-floppies even, which are only given absolutly essential bug fixes for the exceedingly rare updates. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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