[plug] LinuxPPC

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Mon Mar 22 08:17:36 WST 1999


Peter Robinson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 c.i.n at iname.com wrote:
> > Since there are different window managers for the Intel platform is it
> > relatively easy to port those window managers to PowerPC, like Enlightment. Is
> > this required?

> Ben it should be a relitivly easy step, although one not necessarily for
> the faint hearted as you will probally be required to compile most of the
> components. Although if you wish to wait a while you should be able o get
> it all on the New version of Linux PPC that's due out shortly, I think its
> version 5.

I'm fairly sure that at least some of the major WM's are already ported
and many are CPU-independent anyway. You may have to type (ghasp, shock,
horror) a tar command, followed by "./configure" and "make all install".

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