I'll address your query this way:
If you are looking for a way to use server software on a powerful CPU at 64 or even 128 bits (which NO Intel or copy cat chips can do yet by the way) then this is the place to be, and by all means YDL is THE system to use. If you have the patience to deal with Linux or Unix then dealing will BSD as implemented in OS X is very very compelling especially as OS X is so rock solid and reliable whereas in Linux one is nearly always tweaking this or that. Also BSD is so entwined into OS X that unless one had sufficient experience in Linux one would not know that the graphic engine creating all those nice colors in iTunes is xine! Yet in Linux the controls in xine are absolutely archaic!
Most familiar with Red Hat Linux would not be able to distinguish a YDL desktop from a Red Hat one.
Having said that it is also true that if you really want a program which runs on a Linux system on a PC all you need to do is access that program's source, download it and recompile it for use on your PPC. This will nearly always be possible unless the program is written to execute and utilize PC specific hardware. You should take the time to find out just how committed to open source a programmer or a group of programmers really are.
If they provide source for you so that you can compile their program on your PPC, they did not code it specifically for PC hardware then yes, you should be able to run that software. Note that there are two conditions to fulfill, not one.
On May 18, 2005, at 11:49 AM, juan pablo perez wrote:
Hi!
this is my first message to this list
Nowadays I'm a PC Linux user but my first coputer was an (already old) LC. Now I'm interested in an iMac G5 but only if I can work with Linux on it. It's possible?. It's easy?. All packages avalaible for intel architecture are for PPC too?
thanks in advance
jppe, Spain
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