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Re: More GNU/Linux Distros Silently Drop PowerPC
« on: April 15, 2010, 07:56:53 AM »
@Kolla

How does Gentoo compare against say, NetBSD?
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Re: More GNU/Linux Distros Silently Drop PowerPC
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2010, 08:01:05 AM »
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I thought otherwise, hmm. PPC is NOT DEAD!!!


As a desktop arch, it is pushing up the daisies, it's curled up its tootsies. It has gone to meet its maker etc etc

The only place you'll likely find PPC is in the telecoms and some embedded places, but tbh outside of telecoms, you're pretty much in ARM territory these days.

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 I really will continue to use my G4 until it burns out or something, runs circles around my brother's Sempron laptop with 3Gb, he is runing win7 (thats probably why)


You've said that before. I'd like to see something to back that up. I'm sure there are some benchmarking tools that could be used to test the claim.
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