Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: PowerPC Hardware

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:03:47 -0400
Tekk <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > Jason Self schreef:
> >>
> >
> > (Continuing on just -dev, interested parties can join here or read
> > the archive.)
> >
> >> Manpower seems to be the last remaining item, and without someone
> >> to actually work on it I'm afraid that the PowerPC port may never
> >> get off the ground.
> >
> > There was some work done on PowerPC in the past ([1], [2]), but
> > that info is probably not very useful to work on a metad version.
> >
> > If you're not going to work on this yourself and nobody in our
> > current community steps up then try to find a volunteer in other
> > free software on PPC communities (e.g. [3]). Just asking "do you
> > want to maintain the PPC port of a fully free distro" might be a
> > bit overwhelming, though. Giving them a quick and dirty estimate of
> > what's involved probably works better (not that I can tell you much
> > about that). You can at least point them to our project pages on
> > Savannah [4].
> >
> > [1] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Builder/BuilderOnPowerPc
> > [2] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/PowerpcPortStatus
> > [3] http://penguinppc.org/
> > [4] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gnewsense
> >

> aside from this we have the fact that it'll be outdated pretty
> quickly. I haven't heard anything about ppc since the early-mid 00's

Its not used in new consumer equipment very much. All the old stuff
still exists, and a lot of high end gear (eg, IBM servers) still run on
power/power compatible hardware.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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