Tony Vroon wrote: > Gentoo has a quite active PowerPC team, especially PPC64 as that is the > architecture of the Playstation III. There are a few PowerPC-specific > quirks that you'll have to get used to, but any good installation manual > will explain them to you. > For one, you'll be using yaboot instead of LILO or Grub. Also, you will > be using mac-fdisk to partition. (For which in most cases no pretty GUI > exists, unless of course parted is able to handle that now) > Will give Gentoo a go on the G4. Hopefully it will perform quicker than Debian and Ubuntu did. For some reason, it did not utilise both CPUs. I haven't had much time to fiddle with kernel params etc.
Lack of GUIs are no problem for me. I prefer working in the shell anyway. -- Andy Taylor http://retrocomputers.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
