Re: xfce 4.6 for ppc?

>>> On 3/4/2009 at 12:57 PM, Larry Stotler <larrystotler@...> wrote:

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Thomas Nielsen <thnielsen@...> wrote:

Please remember to bottom post so that the thread makes sense.  Thanx

>bear also in mind it is a 4200rpm laptop disc (and rumor has it, that if you upgrade it
>to a really good disc, the PS3 overheats).

Hmmm.  Hadn't heard that.  I had been debating on a PS3, but I can
build a Core2 based machine with more RAM for cheaper.  I don't really
game.  However, I am debating on BD, and that may finally push me to
it.  Myself, I'd hack the case and add fans....

> Even with this, you start firefox, and some Yast module, then hit swap, and coffee
> again.

That's not very encouraging.  If I picked up a PS3, I'd have to run
linux on it.  YaST unfortunately wants to install all kinds of stuff
no matter how you try to cut down your install.  I used a SuSE Studio
disk created for me that was really cut down, and when I ran the
software management app, it tried to install basically the default
install.  Took forever to taboo all that crap, and then I ended up
having to install off of the DVD anyway because I screwed something
up.

I really wish there was a Damn Small Linux type distro for the PPC.
I've looked into trying to make one, but I don't have the time(or
patience probably).  I've got a bunch of old macs that don't like the
new versions of the current distros very much.  I recently put SuSE
7.3 on one of my Powerbooks(thanks again to a fellow list person) and
it was so much faster than 11.0.  And everything worked right away.
Oh well.
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<<<bottompost - thats like opening the vi/emacs thing i have learnt :-)
I do not want to discourage you away from PS3 - it is an excellent machine, just need to understand its limits. Now that I have OpenSUSE 11.1 and Xfce 4.4 - it is doing well, and Peter Czanik may bring us 4.6 soon, then we are really well.
Here some additional thoughts - PS3 only has one disc bay anyway, so why bother about disc at all - use a NAS I bougth a buffalo mini and use the RAID 1 feature for secutiry for our digital photos, and store everything there - it even supports DLNA (like most of them do http://www.dlna.org/home) then I only have the OS on PS3 - then consider the sound hardware is excellent, not some crap PC soundcard, and sound is sent to your TV via HDMI. Graphics is excellent as well, but not exposed to linux from the hypervisor - shame on you Sony . .  but at least they let us use the memory :-)
And oh the BD player, is considered among the best at all - thanks to easy upgradability.
Another observation - PS3 supports HDMI 1.3a - which should make it able to power on your TV when you power on your playstation. Of course I was not observant of this, and my TV is only 1.3, hence this feature does not work - arghhhh.



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