Thanks for the correction. As regards these venerable aging machines it's pretty easy to misplace one's personal enthusiasm regarding a unique function or quality of a system's architecture as being something "anyone" should obviously appreciate in spite of the reality that there's little to no money to be made supporting such systems.
As you say, "business is business". I like the dancing penguin as well! At least, Linux itself moves forward in interesting directions. The newer hardware is faster, has multi-cores and Linux has better tools to allow an interested learner to explore them with as much interest as one can bear with amazingly flexible open source tools. At least the "dance" continues..., for those willing to work through the steps! Of course, only people like ourselves would be interested in an event known as "Dancing with Linux! ;-) Derick. On 3/4/2011 6:03 PM, Thomas Carlson wrote: > Derick: > > Interesting reading. As far as I can tell, YDL development for PowerMacs > ended in July of 2009. CUDA is for AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T. > > You are right, Debian PPC was a sub-branch of the original Debian and has > been around only since August of 2000. YDL put out its first version 1.1 in > March of 1999, beating it to the punch by a year or so. > > Actually, my first experience with Linux was with MkLinux which came out in > 1996. I had it running on my PowerBook 1400. It only worked on NuBus Macs. > Some of the NuBus Linux diehards tried to keep things going until 2006 or so. > MkLinux still has its website up at... > > http://www.mklinux.org/index.html > > I think the dancing penguin with the shades is very cool. > > Apple soon dropped it and went on to what would become OS X. Later, of > course, they dropped PPC just like Fixstars did. Oh, well. I don't mean to > put anybody down. Business is business. > > Again, thanks for the response. > > Tom >
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