[PLUG] Getting Started - Hardware Choices

Ken Barber pundit at teleport.com
Tue Jun 3 15:30:03 UTC 2003


On Tuesday 03 June 2003 14:00, Dean Suhr wrote:

> * I have a PowerComputing PowerTowerPro box that is server
> grade with a PowerPC processor in it.  I am game to try a
> Debian install (even though a try about two years ago was
> fruitless) - but this box does not have USB (would use a PCI
> add-in and I am concerned that the ease-of-use of Red Hat's
> one-click software up to date process would not be available).

RedHat doesn't make a product that runs on PPC so you'll have 
trouble using their one-click update process anyway.

However, Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 is basically a re-compile of RedHat 
8.0 for the PPC processor.  They don't use RedHat's UpToDate 
product, obviously, but they do have a couple of their own 
updaters:  apt-get and yum.  Neither is "clickable" since they're 
CLI apps, but yum ran pretty flawlessly for me the one time I 
tried it, and the first thing that came to my mind was, "hey, 
I'll bet I could script this, and just run it in a cron job!"

Ken




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