[Gnumed-devel] Re: limitations of Mandrake

[J Busser]

At 7:34 AM +0100 11/19/04, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I do not want to make Debian advertising but I hope you are aware that Debian
> works on PowerPC (and on 11 other architectures as well).
> Moreover I might add that I think I'll finish the Debian packaging next week.
> I'm just waiting for some hints from Karsten how to bootstrap the server
> sanely.  Once this is done the bug squashing season might start. :)

I had downloaded it and tried to install. It got a bit confusing with 
varying hard drive partition format requirements (needing an HFS Mac 
partition without which copying would not be possible from the Debian 
to OS X [UFS?] partition). Moreover yaboot didn't seem to behave the 
way the documentation said it should. I was a bit pressed for time 
and it was a year ago, it is possible I would now understand the 
instructions a bit better. Dual-boot would be nice but for a while I 
could tolerate having to reboot.

To be able to use Debian as a client OS, does a person need to be a 
power-user much more than for other Linux distros?. If I had trouble 
installing it myself, I could get help, but I certainly don't want to 
*need* help adjusting things that should be "basic" e.g. TCP/IP 
network settings, connecting to a choice of printers etc.