PowerPC

Chris Cowan plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:51:35 -0700


Are you refering to actually building a PPC Computer for a hardware point of 
view or are you refering to installing linux on a PPC? I've done several PPC 
Linux installs (Debain, YellowDog and LinuxPPC) You can find a wealth of 
information at http://penguinppc.org/ 

Chris


On Saturday 06 April 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote:
> Hey Trent,
> I don't think you'll be able to build a PPC based
> machine. This is the chip architecture used in Macs
> and the Macintosh clones didn't take to well. There
> may be a few other machines that use the PPC (from IBM
> I think). You never hear the term anymore (IBM
> compatible) but it's like that. IBM released the
> documenation on their PC and other companies could
> build their own based on this documentation. If Apple
> did this then some other company could supersede them.
>
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