One thing to keep in mind is PPC has been out of production for a decade. You want a currently developed platform to work on a 10-year old (at the newest) architecture. Good luck. Just because the OS supports something the software developer of your packages needs to spend the time and money to develop for it as well - that's a hard sell. I don't support browsers over 5years old in my web development world because, well, they account for less than 1% of my customer base. -- Ryan Coleman > On Mar 31, 2014, at 23:33, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Brian, > > I read through that information and then the comments as well found in the following link you sent. > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-linux-7-wheezy-install-flash-player/ > > I noted comment number 10 and 12. Comment 10 states: 'there may possibly be no backports for PowerPC'. Comment 12 states: You can use ftp or http. The package is available only for i386 and amd64.<----That is some cause for concern. > > I just spent the last few hours starting to try to understand about 4 pages in the Gentoo installation manual for PowerPC referenced in the following link. > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc64.xml?part=1&chap=1 > > Perhaps it's time for me to consider Debian more seriously for this Mac truly it seems a little easier to setup for someone with little or no experience such as me with linux. > > Obviously the thought of getting 15 or maybe 20 years out of something like Gentoo has it's reward's and is worth reading more. > > Thanks, > > > > > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:38:30 -0500 > > From: kc0iog at gmail.com > > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Will GNU/Linux work with a MAC? > > > > \On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 7:13 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > The thing that is upsetting for me is that Gnome 3 is preinstalled on Debian > > > Wheezy, I do not like Gnome 3. I have used Debian Wheezy a little bit with a > > > Sony Viao Laptop I own [it's currently installed on that pc] as of now. > > > Initally after installation I struggled with Adobe-flashplayer under > > > iceweasel. Still Adobe-flashplayer is not installed under iceweasel. Can't > > > login to hotmail or gmail with iceweasel. I have been told that Google > > > Chrome will support flash on Wheezy. I have not tried it personally yet. > > > > There are ISOs for Wheezy using the XFCE desktop. I dropped Gnome a > > few years ago and haven't looked back. > > > > 64 bit: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.4.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-7.4.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso > > 32 bit: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.4.0/i386/iso-cd/debian-7.4.0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso > > PPC: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.4.0/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-7.4.0-powerpc-xfce-CD-1.iso > > > > I think you'll find XFCE simple, lightweight, and fast. Much closer > > to what you're used to with Gnome 2. > > > > Flash does work on Wheezy. You need to add the non-free repo, here's > > a good walkthrough: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-linux-7-wheezy-install-flash-player/ > > > > I use flash on my Wheezy box (amd64) without issues. It does seem to > > work better in Chrome than iceweasel. > > > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140401/43d1e626/attachment-0001.html>