[plug] LinuxPPC

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Leon Brooks wrote:

> 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".

Yes, but its not as easy as doing rpm -i package, and you hav ehave all
the other library's that are required, and there's quiet a list for gnome
and enlightenment.

Peter

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