PPC computer

[Michael Havens]

I tried takling a CRT to goodwill a couple of months ago. "We only accept
flat-screens' they said.

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 12:32 PM, gm5729 <gm5729 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm probably going to get a  lot of flack on this. But sometimes
> planned obselscence just has to run course. PPC went out like late
> 90s. And there is only ONE distro I know of still actively or was
> actually pursuing PPC of any sort -- Yellow Dog Linux. The audience
> just isn't there for the effort to make a distro anymore.
>
> By at least moving to Intel like MAC and PC's have done you will give
> yourself a fair shot at getting support and not having to try to
> hobble together something. Goodwill used to sell computers and such
> for pretty cheap. I picked up a monitor there, this was CRT days for
> $10. That was 5 years ago in PHX. Businesses around tax time want to
> spend the rest of their budget so they are likely candidates to get
> something on the cheap or even free.
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> vp
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