Hi All! Silent Listener.... I run Linux intel and PPC (SuSE 7.3) and are _not_ having many difficulties compiling apps for Linux-ppc. Fortunately most applications do take care of endianess. It's just the odd two or three apps that are using some intel-specific asm-code (normally the dvd-software). But normally it's just a matter of editing a few *.h-files to get rid of that... Sometimes there is a guru friendly enough to include AltiVec-Code, so the apps don't crawl *that* much in comparison to their intel-variant (especially lame really is much slower....)
ALSA does run fine on PPC (As does the EMI 2|6-USB-Interface ;-)) In comparison to OsX I much prefer Linux on my PowerBook. After getting used to pd instead of (j)MAX I only miss SuperCollider for Linux... I really hate the OsX Terminal.app and that BSD-thinking, but maybe it's just a matter of getting used to it... just my 0.02 EUR Have fun* Niklas PS. If anybody is interested: On http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~wernern/Assets/emi26test/ I made some crude measurements of the EMI2|6 using the OSS-drivers
