I've used YellowDog in the past, and I think it is a good dist. I wouldn't mind seeing a PPC Linux version of Chimera, either. Geoff. On Dec 7, 2005, at 10:50 AM, A. Zelter wrote:
I think Conrad is saying that on the x86 architecture they can compile for RedHat and it will run on most distributions of x86 Linux. He's asking if there's a similar situation on PPC Linux, and which distribution of PPC Linux would provide the best prospects for such coverage. It seems to me that this is to minimize the occurrence of someone saying "I see you have the binaries for XYZ PPC Linux, but they don't run on my distribution of ABC PPC Linux. Could you please compile it for ABC PPC Linux?"
Ahhh thanks. I knew I didn't get something. Well, I'm no expert on that kind of thing, but Fedora Core 4 has a ppc version. I think this is a little more modern than Red Hat Linux 7.1 - it runs kernel 2.6.11. However, RedHat did make a PPC version of their 7.1 distro (Red Hat Linux 7.1 for pSeries). I suppose that would be equivalent. Another good bet might be yellowdog linux. The latest version is 4.0.1, and it uses kernel 2.6.10. Yellowdog is based on redhat but built specifically for Macs. This is probably what I would try using. Alex