Dist-hopping experimentation time!

[Steve Holmes]

If I recall, I thought you looked into Arch once but found that it
wouldn't run on a PowerPC platform I know the standard architectures
are i386 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit).  So you might not be able to
try that distro out on that machine.

The most tangible notes I can give you right now would be on the PLUG
website for this Thursday's east side meeting.  There is a brief
overview of what I plan to cover; I haven't done any other notes yet.
I'm just finished up going through nearly 400 messages this evening to
catch up with the PLUG e-mail.  I got a little lax about following
this list lately.  I use gmail's filters to force different e-mail
lists into their own labels and that then ends up in separate IMAP
folders when reading with mutt or thunderbird.

Like I said earlier, what notes I use will be for my items to cover
but you might be more familier with other tools or techniques so you
probably shouldn't lock in too closely to what I have.  That way,
there will be unique approaches to how each of us address these
issues.

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:50:02PM -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote:
> I am thinking of giving that one a try out on the powerbook.
> btw, I have A version of Vinux (version 3.1 PPC) running on there now from a vinux build script meant for 3.0 (ubuntu 10.04 based). 
> 
> I had to modify the scripts to update to maverick meerkat and some packages are clearly not available for the PPC platform (such as chromium-browser).
> 
> hey steve, did you have a set presentation outline for your accessibility presentation at the east side plug meeting? if co, can I borrow some of it?
> 
> -Eric
> 
> On Feb 7, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for such a late reply here but I'm catching up on this list.  I
> > personally like Arch Linux.  It is very current because of the rolling
> > update concept and dispite this concept, the system is much more
> > stable than Debian Unstable for example.  It kinda reminds me of
> > Slackware with the need for tweeking the main rc.conf file to turn on
> > selected services but the package build process and dependency
> > tracking is far superior to Slackware.  I love the PKGBUILD scripts
> > used to build Arch Linux packages.  They are easy to clone and use for
> > new applications that aren't already in place.  I believe the config
> > files are more the BSD style as I understand it.
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 02:50:54PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:46:10AM -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 09:17 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> >>>> Debian for its rock solid reliability, and conversely Ubuntu being a
> >>>> graceful extension of that.
> >>> 
> >>> I think you're being short sighted here.  Some of us choose Ubuntu
> >>> solely because of the personality cult around Mark Shuttleworth. ;)
> >> 
> >> It's also the reason some of us are taking a long look at other 
> >> distros. :-|
> >> 
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