LinuxPPC vs. RedHat???

Matt Porter mmporter at home.com
Thu Mar 2 05:24:39 EST 2000


On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:17:27AM -0800, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Info wrote:
>
> > I need to buy a workstation for Linux development (C++,JAVA,PERL,etc)
> > and would like to buy a Mac instead of Wintel.
> >
> > -Is LinuxPPC 2000 on par with RedHat 6.1?
>
> That's what all the PPC Linux distros are based on, yes.

Actually, I'd say that LinuxPPC and Yellowdog track RedHat.

Debian, SuSE, and TurboLinux do not.  The only similarity for the latter two
would be the use of rpm packaging.

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Matt Porter
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