Re: Let's start a survey on our userbase

On Sun, 2025-09-21 at 20:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Again, thank you for your great work! My Power Mac G5 is currently 
> > (still) collecting dust, and I still haven't gotten around to installing 
> > Debian on it. If the time comes, I will and I will try to use it for 
> > stuff, but I'm not sure how this will turn out. Gentoo has always been 
> > my favorite choice, as well as individual configuration has been. I'm 
> > looking for XFS, not ext4 as a file system for example, encrypted 
> > LUKS-LVM as the partitioning scheme, and for other modern stuff like 
> > e.g. zram and so forth. Not sure how this is supported/tested on G5s.
> 
> Why should this work on the G5 and why do you think that Debian doesn't

Why shouldn't*

> allow you to use these features? You don't have to build your whole system
> from source just to switch the default filesystem or use an encrypted
> partition ;-).

Adrian

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