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[poweramiga2002]

well its a little confusing as to what version of linux will be supplied with A1 does anyone know the real score?

[Bodie]

poweramiga2002 wrote:
well its a little confusing as to what version of linux will be supplied with A1 does anyone know the real score?

Either SuseLinux PPC 7.3 or Debian. Give a Doug a call, he'll probably give you a choice.

Cheers

[poweramiga2002]

Either SuseLinux PPC 7.3 or Debian.

whitch one is the best souldent be long before my A1 xe comes i hope an getting a little exited in anticipation of its arival i hope os4 wont be to far behind :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

[MasterOfReality]

SuSe have dropped PPC support and aren't producing 7.3PPC any more so it won't be SuSe. It'll be YDL or Debian.

[olegil]

The good news is that we have working installers for YDL, Debian and SuSE. Why worry about what is supplied with the board? If you want to run Debian, You can do that. If you want to run YDL, you can do that. If you have a copy of SuSE for PPC and want to use that, you can.

neither.
os4 please

[asian1]

Hello
There are several strange Linux Distro for X86:

1. Linux from Scratch.
2. Linux Knopper (From CD, without any Hard disk installation).
3. Penguin Liberation Front (PLF).

Is it possible to port the above distros to PowerPC?

I found that the latest version of Linux application softwares is not available in binary format, and user have to re-compile the whole source code from TAR.GZ or TAR.BZ2 source codes.

I found several difficulty (see my ID3LIB post) and only solve it by downloading the latest binary of GCC.

Several "closed source" Linux application (ie 3ivx codec) is only available in X86 binary format.
Is it possible to solve this problem?

BTW: Is there any working DVD Writer and Player software on Linux PPC?
What about Non Linear Video Editing and Capture?

1. Linux from Scratch.
2. Linux Knopper (From CD, without any Hard disk installation).
3. Penguin Liberation Front (PLF).

Never heard of those distros, maybe Knoppix has been ported for PPC, but -really- got no idea 'bout it, try to take a look @ LinuxIso where you can find a lot of distro or even take a look @ OSnews where you can browse quite all OSes filtering the search...
If you're interested in Porting the distros to PPC, this is usually a developer problem, on the distro site you can find any hint about it (if any).

I'm d/l right now the latest version (1.4_rc3) of Gentoo: it seems (in my opinion) one of the best distros apart from SlackWare (and the fastest!!! :-D ). It has recently ported also on MIPS and you can find the PPC in 1.4_rc2 version of the distro.

Try to take a look... Gentoo

I found that the latest version of Linux application softwares is not available in binary format, and user have to re-compile the whole source code from TAR.GZ or TAR.BZ2 source codes.

Well.. usually is done by compiling, the only exception is if you're using common hardware or the package doesen't need shared libs or particular dependencies. I can only suggest you to try to find on rpmfind.org (if your distro works with rpms) what you need, and if not ported on your machine, try to look for the latest source pkg and compile it ($ ./configure && make && make install). ;-) ;-)

Several "closed source" Linux application (ie 3ivx codec) is only available in X86 binary format.
Is it possible to solve this problem?

Don't really know if... grab mplayer and its binary pkgs of codecs... and try to find out if it suits your needs: MPlayer Home Page

That's it!

8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Mike_Amiga]

OT:

It all seems a bit backward to call the latest in a long line of Amigas the Amiga One. Dreamed that up while reading an Amiga games magazine did they?