Ken Cunningham wront on 01/30/22 22:29:
I am noticing there is a tremendous amount of misinformation and outright
confusion floating around about installing debian (current) on PowerPC Apple
systems. Current walkthroughs are telling people what seems to me to be the
completely wrong way to go about things. Older debian and other walkthroughs
are no longer valid. People are following recipes from 2, 3, or 8 years ago,
adding all the wrong apt sources and installing software from all over the
place, thinking they are following the current recommendations, which it seems
to me, they are not.
Other distros are dropping PowerPC Apple systems, and people are looking for
direction.
Given that this list is the defacto standard for the source of such info, I
wonder if someone might agree to maintain a once-monthly “This is how…” FAQ or
similar.
Honestly, this should be on the debian.org documentation or manuals
pages. But it isn't, since PowerPC is no longer an officially supported
architecture.
If I type "Debian PowerPC installation manual" into an Internet search
engine of my choice, I end up with e.g.
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/, and yes, this is dated...
IMHO not this list would be the right place, but a link from debian.org
to some "unsupported" but available architectures and their
documentations...
There must be a link to "unsupported (but still around)" from within
https://www.debian.org/doc/.
Just my 2¢.
In the meantime, yes, better here in on the mailing list than nowhere at
all...
Linux User #330250
(An inactive Power Mac owner, due to missing spare time...)
