[ale] Linux/PPC on i386 box : virtual or otherwise

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Wed Feb 14 13:53:08 EST 2007


Um, there is no real difference other than the architecture for which
the packages are compiled (as far as I'm aware). But, I suppose you
could use Qemu if you really want to play with PPC compiled packages
on an x86 box.

On 2/14/07, Jerry Yu <jjj863 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to learn Linux/PPC. Any off chance I can run a PPC vm of sorts on an
> intel/amd box ?  I don't want to buy or maintain a mac or IBM power series
> hardware.


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