suse linux on power had enough now gonna try deb(again) and crux

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Shaun

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Mar 10, 2011, 4:31:51 AM3/10/11
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just so those of you that want to play know I have had enough of
opensuse on the Pseries I am gonna have another look and see if I can
get deb going if not I am gonna go with crux and do a build from scratch.

I must be frackin made

Didi

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Mar 10, 2011, 5:18:52 AM3/10/11
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CENTOS CENTOS CENTOS

Ahh ..... Did I mention CentOS

Edd Barrett

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Mar 10, 2011, 6:44:13 AM3/10/11
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What arch is p series?

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Didi

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Mar 10, 2011, 7:18:13 AM3/10/11
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Edd Barrett <vex...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What arch is p series?

I assume ppc

Edd Barrett

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Mar 10, 2011, 8:35:36 AM3/10/11
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It's not really clear. I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_p


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Shaun

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Mar 10, 2011, 9:13:01 AM3/10/11
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yeah ppc, but just cos a distro says it will work on a ppc it might work
on "mickey mouse" apple hardware but not on full blooded IBM Power
series iron.

Edd Barrett

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Mar 10, 2011, 9:40:22 AM3/10/11
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 02:13:01PM +0000, Shaun wrote:
> yeah ppc, but just cos a distro says it will work on a ppc it might
> work on "mickey mouse" apple hardware but not on full blooded IBM
> Power series iron.

Yah, I reckon you will have issues on non-apple power hardware, it's certainly
not common or the sort of hardware that people would donate to open source
projects.

Best of luck :\

Robert Bronsdon

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Mar 10, 2011, 12:40:59 PM3/10/11
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:18:52 -0000, Didi <di...@ribalba.de> wrote:

> CENTOS CENTOS CENTOS
>
> Ahh ..... Did I mention CentOS


I think you did, however people that use computer need working not just
old^Wstable machines.

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