I ran Debian/PPC for about a year, 1-2 years ago -- it worked fine at that point, on a G3 iBook.
Of course, you get weird looks with MacOS / Linux dual boots, but that's different than whether it functions. I switched back to intel-based hardware because it was cheaper and faster, not necessarily better. best, -tony Tamas Papp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am about to but a laptop, and have narrowed the choices down to a > Dell Latitude 600 and an Apple Powerbook G4 Aluminium (Princeton > provides these models at a discount for grad students). > > I am biased towards the Powerbook, and would like to run Debian on it. > I have only used debian on i386 platforms so far. I use R quite > frequently, so I would be interested in your experience of running R > in debian/ppc --- are there any quirks with libraries, any packages > that don't compile, anything that should discourage me from buying a > powerbook or running debian on it, etc. > > I would also be interested in your experience with the speed of the > platform. I have never used a RISC processor before, so I don't know > whether the claims that it delivers much more power per MHz are valid. > > Please share anything that you consider relevant. If you think that > it's not R-related, please send an e-mail to the either address below > instead of the list. > > Thanks, > > Tamas > > -- > Tamás K. Papp > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please try to send only (latin-2) plain text, not HTML or other garbage. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > -- Anthony Rossini Research Associate Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.analytics.washington.edu/ Biomedical and Health Informatics University of Washington Biostatistics, SCHARP/HVTN Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center UW (Tu/Th/F): 206-616-7630 FAX=206-543-3461 | Voicemail is unreliable FHCRC (M/W): 206-667-7025 FAX=206-667-4812 | use Email CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachme...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
