Re: xfce 4.6 for ppc?

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:57:38AM -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
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> 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....

I also bought my PS3 for the BD and because I could easily slap
linux on it. One thing to note is that @1080p, mplayer will drop
frames while playing video full screen. If linux could use the
GPU it'd make a great multimedia PC.... If it had a little more
RAM and a TV tuner it'd be perfect.

> 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.

Yeah, I wound up just doing a basic X install and building the
awesome window manager from source. I don't usually keep a mouse
plugged in to my PS3, so a good tiling WM works well and it
doesn't use much RAM either. I have th 80GB PS3, so HD space
isn't really an issue, but running a full desktop environment
wasn't very pleasant.

> 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.

Hmm, I ran slackintosh on my powerbook for awhile and it was OK
until I started missing yast. But I have a relatively new
powerbook (G4 @ 1.5GHz) with lots of RAM, so performance wasn't
_that_ big of an issue, but slackintosh was definitely more
responsive.

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Evan McClain
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