[CLUE-Tech] Who do I surrender to?

[Joe Linux]

Surrender to Steve Jobs.  He's the one that's into all the highly 
proprietary B$.  It may be time to give Apple up and get Mandrake 
certified PC hardware.  See the Mandrake website for a list of the 
certified or approved motherboards.

Francis Maier wrote:

>Is there some official Linux authority I can sign surrender papers with?
>I've been trying to install four different flavors of Linux on my
>OldWorld beige PowerMac G3 for four weeks. Defeated at every turn.
>Latest update from the front, posted earlier this morning:
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>Trying to install Debian on a PowerMac G3. 
>
>In partitioning my hard disk with mac-fdisk, I created a swap partition
>(/dev/hda12) and root partition (/dev/hda13) in the Apple_UNIX_SVR2
>format.
>
>When I try to proceed with installation, activating the swap device, I
>get a message that:
>
>"The swap partition /dev/hda12 could not be activated: Cannot allocate
>memory."
>
>I get a similar message if I reorder the root and swap partitions.
>
>I'm running 768 megs of memory in my Mac.  What am I doing wrong?
>
>Thanks.
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>
>I am reduced to hiring a consultant, if someone can point me to a good
>Mac one.  
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