Re: Mac, Intel, and LinuxPPC

From: Andrew J. Brehm (ajbrehm_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/08/05 

Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:11:20 +0100

Jack Malmostoso <jackmalmostoso@freesurf.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:35:36 +0100, Andrew J. Brehm wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts of how this will affect LinuxPPC?
>
> Actually the real power of PPC is in the server market. Let's face it:
> apple products are used by a small minority of the Real World (TM), and an
> even smaller share use linux.
>
> IBM, Bull and others will continue selling PPC based servers, in which
> linux will find its way. On the other hand, today's Xserves and such will
> be converted to linux in a couple (or more) years, when Apple will stop
> supporting them.
>
> So I guess BenH and the other PPC hackers will stop worrying about sleep
> on fancy notebooks, and maybe thinking about some "more seriuos" stuff.

That is all true. But LinuxPPC has enjoyed some time as a desktop OS
now. And I fear this will be lost.

But then its greatest success in that market was before Mac OS X was
out, I think. 

-- 
Andrew J. Brehm
Marx Brothers Fan
PowerPC/Macintosh User
Supporter of Chicken Sandwiches

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