Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread Ken Cunningham
Perhaps you and Jeff (who expressed interest and has such skills) might work together on it? Although there are lots of this and that’s about it, in the end, it would help a lot of people get going with less trouble. Best, K > On Feb 1, 2022, at 3:44 PM, Riccardo Mottola > wrote: > > Hi K

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi Ken, Ken Cunningham wrote: > > All your excellent work deserves to be used! So make it easier for > people, is all I'm about here. I understand where you are. I have long experience with PPC and Linux and yet an install was not easy, depending on the flux of packages We could start with som

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/1/22 18:05, Ken Cunningham wrote: > Indeed. I'm certainly familiar with all that, but I can tell you a great many > are not. > > This would be exactly the reason for the FAQ (or similar). Well, the thing is that the whole thing is a work-in-progress, so it sounds a bit weird to create docu

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread Ken Cunningham
On 2022-02-01 01:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Ken! On 1/31/22 17:09, Ken Cunningham wrote: But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it seems, from the 1,200 questions over and over and over about it on the Linux on PowerPC Macs facebook group (and the 1,199 wron

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 1/31/22 17:16, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I think the problem is, Debian does not have a good strategy for > dissemination of long term information for PowerPC. They have a wiki > but there's little information about PowerPC. Instead, Debian places > the long term information on static web

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 2/1/22 10:30, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 1/31/22 17:09, Ken Cunningham wrote: >> But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it seems, from the >> 1,200 questions >> over and over and over about it on the Linux on PowerPC Macs facebook group >> (and the 1,199 >> wrong an

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-02-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Ken! On 1/31/22 17:09, Ken Cunningham wrote: > But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it seems, from the > 1,200 questions > over and over and over about it on the Linux on PowerPC Macs facebook group > (and the 1,199 > wrong answers :> ). As I explained in [1], there is

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-31 Thread David VANTYGHEM
Hello, Wiki like https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/ordinateur_compatible_ubuntu is convenient to make a documentation but normal users will not participate because of wiki syntax. I'm working on this project: https://framagit.org/InfoLibre/rapido The goal of Rapido is to have the same thing than wit

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-31 Thread Ken Cunningham
You'd be perfect, Jeff, if you have the inclination. Thing is, you could write it, Adrian could do a few technical corrections when he has time if he sees something glaring go past, and we would all see it go by once a month and could chime in with tweaks we discovered, if useful. I suspec

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:09 AM Ken Cunningham wrote: > > Thanks. > > I’m in great shape, everything running fairly well on my machines. > > But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it seems, from the > 1,200 questions over and over and over about it on the Linux on PowerPC Macs

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-31 Thread Ken Cunningham
Thanks. I’m in great shape, everything running fairly well on my machines. But most people have no idea even what boot iso to use, it seems, from the 1,200 questions over and over and over about it on the Linux on PowerPC Macs facebook group (and the 1,199 wrong answers :> ). Perhaps someone

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-31 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Ken! On 1/30/22 22:29, Ken Cunningham wrote: > 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

Re: Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-30 Thread Linux User #330250
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

Request for a once-montly PowerPC for Apple Systems FAQ?

2022-01-30 Thread Ken Cunningham
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 walkt