Re: Recommendations for a Distro for a PowerPC
"Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:19 -0500, Stephen Gregory wrote: > Part of your problem is that the hardware is not that fast. > The other part is that the software is trying to be too smart. The video drivers, when the machine gets hot, tries to switch to a low power mode but the hardware does not support this. There are other problems with the sound and the power manager but all from the same cause; the hardware is too old to support the newer, smarter software. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." --John von Neumann, circa 1960 -- OCLUG general discussion list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug