future of PPC

[Larry Cafiero]

Throwing in two cents:

I am relatively new to GNU/Linux, but I have been running Yellow Dog 3.0 on
both a PowerMacintosh G3 minitower and on a PowerBook G3 (I am a
dyed-in-the-wool Mac user who believes Apple hardware -- especially the
legacy beige and black hardware -- is the best on the planet, bar none).

To its credit, Yellow Dog has been pretty faithful to the Mac over the
years. However, and understandably so, since this hardware that essentially
won't die is becoming obsolete -- even being abandoned by Apple itself -- it
would behoove someone or some company (TerraSoft?) to at least provide a
distro that will work on this legacy hardware and let those of us who
appreciate the legacy hardware -- "legacy" in the same way that the '57
Chevy or the '65 Mustang are legacy automobiles -- to continue using and
tinkering with it.

So to paraphrase Mark Twain, "Reports of the PPC's demise are somewhat
premature."

Larry Cafiero
Editor/Publisher
Open Source Reporter
http://www.opensourcereporter.net

On 4/25/07, Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Gee Dave, Thanks for that insight.
>
> Now I don't know if I'm really in the "groove" or inside of the hi-tech
> environment... or if I'm out.
> You are right though... the future is not what it used to be!
> :)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> David Seikel wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:26:20 -0500 Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Do you (or does anyone else) know what the future is for PPC at this
> >> point?  I know that the PPC has been a major player in the server
> >> world, but when it comes to consumer-level machines, I'm not seeing
> >> much else beyond the PS3 right now.
> >>
> >
> > Ironically enough, the X-Box 360 uses three PPC cores.  I may be wrong,
> > but I think the Wii is also PPC.  The Cell on the PS3 counts as PPC as
> > it has a PPC core, which is why YDL runs on it.  So PPC owns the games
> > console market now.
> >
> > Microsoft moved to PPC and Apple moved to Intel.  The world just got
> > stranger.
> >
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