PPC computer

[Technomage Hawke]

well,
I don't have a lot of choices in what equipment I use as I don't have a spare $1,000 just laying around.While I am waiting on the state to get me some training on jaws for windows (so I can go back into the computer/technical field), I am hopefully going to have a job at the local denny's washing dishes. that may give me a bit more spending capital, but its still going to make me a while to save up anything.

I can tell you from the perspective of a blind and unemployed person, both situations suck and for one like me to be able to acquire and keep a job in *this* economy is nearly impossible.

however, thats is not the point of this thread. I don't care if yellow dog is the only game in town. they are too limited in their package selection and orca and a few other needed packages are not even in their repo. so even if I went with them, I'd still have to compile some of what I need and use visual assistance to get it done. no thanks! At least with Ubuntu 10.10, I have a base install and a number of good apps to choose from (including orca). unfortunately, I will still have to do some compiling for my specific machine to mitigate a couple of bugs that appeared in the DBUS subsystem (again, the need for a backend compiler here is a must).

-Eric


On Dec 25, 2010, at 12:32 PM, gm5729 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.
> 
> vp