On Friday 27 of March 2015 23:53:44 Larry Stotler wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Tini <trin@...> wrote: > > If I understand you correctly, how hard is it to get a Mac to run TDE? > > I know they're both based on Unix. > > Any new world PowerMac(iMac and newer and Powerbook G3 Lombard and > newer) can run Linux or NetBSD easily. You just need a PowerPC > specific port. Debian's is very good. Fedora had a recent PowerMac > port as well. I've run Linux on Old World macs as well like the > PowerMac 9600 but they are not really viable machines any more. G4s & > newer are very usable tho. > > Running TDE requires it be recompiled and tested on Mac PowerPC hardware. > > Any intel Mac can use the x86/x64 ports so there isn't anything extra > needed. > > I have been hoping to have time to test it on my iBook Clamshell but > haven't had time...... > As I mentioned earlier - PowerPC builds are available on alternative apt source 'preliminary-stable-builds'. Because I do not have a real PowerPC hardware (such as PowerMac), I could not perform a real test. -- Sl�vek