[ale] Linux on PPC

[Jim Kinney]

You verbed a noun. Is that allowed?
On Jun 6, 2014 6:22 PM, "Jeff Hubbs" <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:

>  Not an issue with Gentoo.  From
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1#book_part1:
>
>   *Apple NewWorld Machines* Power/PowerPC microprocessors (G3, G4, G5)
> such as iMac, eMac, iBook PowerBook, Xserver, PowerMac  *Apple OldWorld
> machines* Apple Machines with an Open Firmware revision less than 3, such
> as the Beige G3s, PCI PowerMacs and PCI PowerBooks. PCI-based Apple Clones
> should also be supported.  *Genesi* Pegasos I/II, Open Desktop
> Workstation, Efika  *IBM* RS/6000, iSeries, pSeries  *Memory* At least 64
> MB  *Diskspace* 1.5 GB (excluding swap space)  *Swap space* At least 256
> MB
> It's really nice to be able to take a non-Intel machine that'd be a boat
> anchor to most and make it almost as useful as x86/x86_64 (within reason,
> i.e. accelerated video).  I've Gentooed a couple of Suns in the past; solid
> as a rock.
>
> On 6/6/14, 12:41 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
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> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 11:36 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:50 +0000, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
>> > > So, are any of you doing any Linux on PowerPC?  Someone gave me an old
>> > > 2Ghz PowerMac G5 (one of the big full tower aluminum ones that was
>> > > about $3000+ back when it was new), with 3 GB of memory, and a 1TB
>> > > hard drive.  It works great/has nothing wrong with it - not even a
>> > > scratch on the exterior.  It looks like Debian or Yellowdog seem to be
>> > > the main options for PPC these days...  this thing may be my weekend
>> > > experiment :)
>>
>> > Wow...  Weird how things just synchronisticly come together...
>>
>> > No, I'm not actively working on PPC now although I do have the hardware
>> > available to me.  In fact, said hardware may be a twin of your own.
>>
>> > Be that as it may.  Fedora has been released on PPC (32 and 64).
>>
>>  Ah, crap...  Strike that...
>>
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PowerPC/F20_PPC_release_announcement
>>
>> Reading in more detail was this unexpected gem (rhinestone)...
>>
>
>  yeah
>
> " Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been tested, and are
> not expected to work."
>
>  Very geared toward new IBM Power systems.
>
>>
>> --
>> Supported Hardware
>>
>> IBM POWER servers are the only systems fully supported by Fedora for
>> Power at this time.
>>
>> Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been tested, and are
>> not expected to work.
>> --
>>
>> Damn...  Guess that G5 sits a while longer...
>>
>> > The coincidence is that I'm fielding some bugzilla reports on LXC at the
>> > moment and one of them is a failure to install lxc-templates on a ppc64
>> > arch due to a dependency on busybox (which is required).  Seems that
>> > someone forgot to build busybox for F20 ppc even though it's present in
>> > F19 ppc.  Still looking for who to lay hands on for that oversight.
>> >
>> > > --
>> > > Allen Beddingfield
>> > > Systems Engineer
>> > > The University of Alabama
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Mike
>>
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