MacMini G4, Debian, RunRev

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 02:44:21 EDT 2010


Having had a "mini-adventure" yesterday with MorphOS on
my MacMini [ a sort of back-to-the-future type of experience
where contextual menus pop up in funny places and the GUI
behaves neither like the Mac, Win, GNOME, KDE or RISC OS
GUIs, yet is not slick enough to seem a better bet than the
minimalist GUIs for Linux - not something I can see myself
shelling out 111 Euros for], I thought I would entertain myself
by popping Debian on the machine.

Having played around with quite a few Debian derivatives, and
using "the" derivative - Ubuntu - I started feeling a bit silly during
recent discussions here than I had never tried out Debian.

As I don't have a free [ take note those who were getting confused
about the meaning of the word 'free'; this is free as in ????????
- freely available -, not ?????????; I paid for the thing! ] PC I will
try it out on the MacMini [Um . . . Safari says it will take about
1 hour and 45 minutes to download the DVD].

However, I have a feeling that RunRev for Linux "won't" on PPC
Linux [ it certainly "wouldn't" on Ubuntu PPC a while back ].



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