LinuxPPC vs. RedHat???

[David A. Gatwood]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John L Grantham wrote:

> On 1/3/00 6:17 pm, David A. Gatwood at dgatwood at deepspace.mklinux.org was
> inspired to say:
>
> >
> >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.
>
> <nitpick>Not Debian...</nitpick>

Is the Debian distribution a working distribution now?  I'd gotten the
impression that it was still a work-in-progress.


> >> -Other than recompiling on wintel for delivery, can anyone see
> >> potential problems with using LinuxPPC in a RedHat shop?
> >> -Any known problems with JAVA tools (JDK, JSDK, Tomcat)?
> >
> >You mean taking LinuxPPC and trying to rebuild it on x86?  Good luck.  The
> >words source compatible tend to be somewhat exaggerated when it comes to
> >real-world use, especially where RPMs are involved.  Just MHO.
>
> Agreed. However, if you want to use LinuxPPC for development for Red Hat,
> so long as you have decent cross-compilers I don't see why there would be
> a major problem. But Java tools are still pretty much Intel-centric
> AFAIK. (Now isn't that an oxymoron...Java on one platform. ;-P )

Heheheh


David


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