[ydl-gen] quid ps3 linux after 2012 - addendum

[Thomas Carlson]

Derick:

I completely understand.  I have the advantage that I am retired and have a lot of time on my hands to fool around with old Macs and see if I can get up-to-date operating systems like Linux working on them.   As we talked about before, Apple has certainly moved on from PowerPC, and the upcoming version of OS X won't even include Rosetta, which enabled Intel Macs to use PPC software.  It's understandable.  Apple wants to sell new computers.

Being a retired Special Education teacher and computer lab tech, though, I know that cash-strapped Mac-centric school districts often are not in a position to dump their old kit and buy the latest and greatest.  It's sad how Apple has let them down by dropping support for the older PPC machines.  Heck, even the evil Microsoft will support Windows XP until 2014.

Cheers, Tom
On Mar 11, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Thanks Tom, I've always appreciated Debian.  I've "lusted" after their
> list of packages for years; however I'm not sure that what's available
> for x_86 Debian is available for PowerPC Debian, or whatever they name it.
> 
> I appreciate that they remain doing "active" PowerPC work.  The issue
> for me is that I still have to consider the cost or "bottom line"
> problem which is very real.  As I explained multi-core systems exist
> which already incorporate the developments which IBM utilized during the
> prime of the PowerPC/Cell era and they are very cheap when measured
> against repairs for a PowerPC system.
> 
> I'm not looking at the problem from the view of "making money" as I am
> looking at the problem from the view of not wasting it on an aging
> architecture whose current and future descendants are actually Intel
> multi-core systems which have integrated PowerPC/Cell technologies into
> themselves!
> 
> Again, from an individual's perspective considering the "bottom line" as
> well as the nature of technological development which is active, is only
> rational.
> 
> 
> On 3/11/2011 11:47 AM, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> Derick:
>> 
>> Debian is still actively developing a desktop PPC version, the newest stable release, Squeeze, having been released just this past February.  Now, it's on to Wheezy.
>> 
>> I am at the moment installing the latest test version, just out today, on my PowerMac G4 digital audio.  Hopefully, a bug in the Squeeze installer that assigned the wrong sound module to my particular machine has been fixed.
>> 
>> True, no one is making any money off this endeavor.  But, the bottom line is not the only line.
>> 
>> Cheers, Tom
>> 
>> 
> 
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