[plug] SME PC hardware linux supplier?

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 20:16, Brock Woolf wrote:
> On 09/11/2004, at 4:40 PM, Senectus . wrote:
> 
> > Is there any SME Hardware supplier that will sell a PC with linux
> > installed and (hardware wise) supported on the PC/laptop?
> > I would have thought I would found stuff on the IBM/HP sites.. but the
> > only stuff I found was that if you buy in BULK you can get mandrake on
> > HP PC's.. :-/
> > Note: Not servers.. this is for the desktop purposes only...
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > " So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is
> > below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the
> > stars; amen"
> > - M.C.Escher
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> 
> I have had this problem about 4 months ago. Here are your options:
> 
> 1. (What I did) Buy an Apple iBook/iMac. The hardware is really fast and
> linux runs on the PPC RISC architecture. Probably the best Linux distro 
> to
> use on Mac hardware is Yellow Dog. It's a really modern and easy to use 
> OS.
> Kinda like Mandrake, and Yellow Dog runs on PPC hardware ONLY, so it is
> designed and concentrated on that only.
> Secondly go slackware. Mac hardware is cheaper than Intel hardware 
> because
> you upgrade a lot less than in Alpha, and it looks awesome.
> This is my recommendation.
> 
> 
> 2. HP sell Linux PCs. I'm not sure if they do in Australia, but i'm
> sure you could order one online.
> 
> But seriously, get an iBook, they're so lovely and Yellowdog detects
> and installs flawlessly on ALL Apple hardware.
> 
> >
> - Brock Woolf
> MandrakeLinux - The OS of Choice :)


So how would Yellowdog stack up against PPC Debian for availability of
packages, updates, pre-compiled kernels, WAIX repositories, community
and ease of package management?

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