Thanks for the thoughts on that. I am coming to the same conclusion for the intel architecture. Linux seems to be running decently on the g5, however it is freezing (and/or really sluggish) when trying to exit from open windows. Other than that I have gotten around the issues i'm finding. On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 07:33 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > joelhp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > > > I did try >linux text and >linux nofb to no avail and then ended up using an > > adapter to a vga monitor from the DVI out and just used a standard vga monitor > > and it seems to be installing fine so far. I hope later to be able to get the > > driver working for my monitor after the full install. > > Ah well that's not too bad, looks like it was just coming out of the > other head in the end. > > > A separate question, If I had the choice to install Fedora onto an intel/mac > > rather than the G5 dual 2.7 I have now, could I be limiting my ability to grow > > with linux releases and functionality by staying with the non-intel chip? I am > > trying to avoid building myself into a box (yes..pun intended) that could raise > > issues in the future if those issues could be eliminated with the newer > > intel/mac. The overall object of this install was to turn this box into a > > reliable testing server for beta postgresql projects. > > PowerPC appears to be, well, not dying, but moving into non-PC niches > like Xilinx FPGAs and Playstation 3, so I guess the main worry would be > about Fedora eventually dropping support for it in the next years. I > guess if it costs something to move to Intel, I would stick with the > PowerPC box for now since you mainly want serving action from it which > should be easy to deliver well, and if PowerPC continues its decline you > can move in a couple of years. Yellowdog is a distro that is predicated > around PowerPC so you could always migrate to that as a backup plan. > But if it costs nothing to use an Intel box, you are on a safer bet with > Fedora on an Intel architecture I would think. > > -Andy >
