Debian on PPC. Older G4

Many, many, many Debian developers prefer the PPC arch for development. Some OSX/Debian Dual-booting. MOST just do straight Debian.

The New Debian-Installer works wonderful for most PPC. The only ones that are really having trouble at all, are the really new hardware (less than 3 months old in release) and Old-World machines.

Even then workarounds exist... and most things just work.

As far as Scanners there are a coupla things to look at: [link|http://www.sane-project.org/|SANE Project Home] and specifically [link|http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html|Supported Devices] there are two branches Stable and CVS. Stable is barely used by any distro these days, CVS is where it is at.

But, if your scanner is in Stable, but not "complete" it may be in CVS. In any case you should check out both versions.

I believe Debian has 1.0.13... yep.

They even say:

Use the CVS lists instead if you need the links.

So, your choice. I went with an older Epson USB 1660, it supposedly works just like the 1650. Haven't gotten it yet from the place I bought it from. It has a tracking number from UPS, being Economy-Ground... well when it arrives, it'll show up.

P.S.: I have been following Debian-Boot for quite a while. It is amazing the difference in 1 year the progress D-I has made. Shoot the PA-RISC installer even is going to the 2.6.x kernels as default and removing the 2.4.x kernel from choices. Significantly, it appears other architectures may even follow this, but still leave 2.4 for only some arches. Two arches having a big problem is MIPS-EL and M68K, the wanna-build queues are not serviced by enough processors... they are BARELY keeping up (actually not), but there seems to be resistance to allowing more machines to access the wanna-build queues. (something about archive masters being pissy or something)

Post #191,495 by folkert 1/25/05 9:15:26 AM Reply	Debian on PPC. Older G4 Many, many, many Debian developers prefer the PPC arch for development. Some OSX/Debian Dual-booting. MOST just do straight Debian. The New Debian-Installer works wonderful for most PPC. The only ones that are really having trouble at all, are the really new hardware (less than 3 months old in release) and Old-World machines. Even then workarounds exist... and most things just work. As far as Scanners there are a coupla things to look at: [link\|http://www.sane-project.org/\|SANE Project Home] and specifically [link\|http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html\|Supported Devices] there are two branches Stable and CVS. Stable is barely used by any distro these days, CVS is where it is at. But, if your scanner is in Stable, but not "complete" it may be in CVS. In any case you should check out both versions. I believe Debian has 1.0.13... yep. They even say: Use the CVS lists instead if you need the links. So, your choice. I went with an older Epson USB 1660, it supposedly works just like the 1650. Haven't gotten it yet from the place I bought it from. It has a tracking number from UPS, being Economy-Ground... well when it arrives, it'll show up. P.S.: I have been following Debian-Boot for quite a while. It is amazing the difference in 1 year the progress D-I has made. Shoot the PA-RISC installer even is going to the 2.6.x kernels as default and removing the 2.4.x kernel from choices. Significantly, it appears other architectures may even follow this, but still leave 2.4 for only some arches. Two arches having a big problem is MIPS-EL and M68K, the wanna-build queues are not serviced by enough processors... they are BARELY keeping up (actually not), but there seems to be resistance to allowing more machines to access the wanna-build queues. (something about archive masters being pissy or something) -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [link\|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230\|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source]
Post #191,516 by tjsinclair 1/25/05 10:42:03 AM Reply	Sounds good so far The scanner is a Umax Astra 1220S. It's not supported under OS X so I have to use [link\|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/7610\|Vuescan] to use it. Even if it isn't supported, it's no big deal. I don't scan that much and USB scanners are pretty cheap these days if I really need it. Okay, at this point I'm even more psyched. Tom Sinclair "This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here." -- The Bursar is a man under a lot of stress (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Post #191,524 by folkert 1/25/05 11:25:26 AM Reply	Vuescan... Hmm they have a Linux port. Wonder if it'll compile / run under Linux. Happy!...Happy!...Joy!...Joy! -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* [link\|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230\|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link\|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp\|source]

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