Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-16 Thread Wojciech Grzemski
On Tuesday, 2008-09-16, Steve Revilak wrote: >> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:30:46 -0400 >> From: "stephen sefick" >> Subject: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R >> This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of >> using R on th

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-16 Thread Steve Revilak
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:30:46 -0400 From: "stephen sefick" Subject: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of using R on that operating system. I have an ibook G4 Power PC that I am going to install linux on.

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread Adam D. I. Kramer
Hi El, As does my PowerBook G4 with 2GB of RAM. The iBook shipped with 256MB, however, which Leopard does not run well on. My point was more that Linux was superior to MacOS in the case of very low memory...not that the chip was somehow the problem. ...but now I am solidly off-topic! Cheers, Ad

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Adam, I (or rather the kids and the wife) got two iMinis and one iBook with G4. They all run 10.5.4 happily on their 1GB of RAM... greetings, el On 12 Sep 2008, at 23:43 , Adam D. I. Kramer wrote: To Stephen's credit, Apple will no longer support PowerPC chips (such as his G4) in the next op

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread Adam D. I. Kramer
Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dr Eberhard W Lisse Sent: Fri 9/12/2008 4:38 PM To: stephen sefick Cc: R-help Mailing List; Dr Eberhard W Lisse Subject: Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R Yes, I'd install the OS X Leopard (10.5.4) distribution on it

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 12 September 2008 at 16:30, stephen sefick wrote: | This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of | using R on that operating system. I have an ibook G4 Power PC that I | am going to install linux on. Is there a better, worse, or perhaps | easier (I am a linux newby migra

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Yes, of course. That's why the :-)-O was there el On 12 Sep 2008, at 23:01 , Doran, Harold wrote: Are you aware that a BSD unix OS runs on the mac already? __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread stephen sefick
e > Sent: Fri 9/12/2008 4:38 PM > To: stephen sefick > Cc: R-help Mailing List; Dr Eberhard W Lisse > Subject: Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R > > Yes, > > I'd install the OS X Leopard (10.5.4) distribution on it :-)-O > > el > > On 12 Sep 2008, at

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread Doran, Harold
Are you aware that a BSD unix OS runs on the mac already? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Dr Eberhard W Lisse Sent: Fri 9/12/2008 4:38 PM To: stephen sefick Cc: R-help Mailing List; Dr Eberhard W Lisse Subject: Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

Re: [R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Yes, I'd install the OS X Leopard (10.5.4) distribution on it :-)-O el On 12 Sep 2008, at 22:30 , stephen sefick wrote: This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of using R on that operating system. I have an ibook G4 Power PC that I am going to install linux on. Is th

[R] Power PC with a linux distribution and R

2008-09-12 Thread stephen sefick
This is an operating system question, but it is with the intent of using R on that operating system. I have an ibook G4 Power PC that I am going to install linux on. Is there a better, worse, or perhaps easier (I am a linux newby migrating from mac) distribution that I should look at. I apprecia