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Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?
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Karl Goetz |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC? |
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Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:26:35 +0930 |
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Larry Cafiero wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> Just wondering (and maybe this is a question for Karl Goetz, if he's on
> this list): I
Hi there :)
sorry about the lag, my pc is overheating +crashing out atm :/
> visited http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/PowerpcPortStatus and was
> wondering if there has been any progress (or if there is any intention
> to continue at all) with a PowerPC version of gNewSense.
all the work i did can be summarised at
http://users.on.net/~goetz/gnewsense/powerpc
status:
it builds using a PPC as buildd, but i didnt have time to get a
multiarch builder [1].
>
> Also, in broader terms, I am wondering if there is even an interest in
> developing gNewSense for PowerPC machines.
I'm for it
>
> I have just started taking programming courses -- I'm a journalist by
> profession who someday hopes to program (and hack, in the true,
> Stallman-esque sense of the word) -- so I'd be willing to do whatever I
> can to help with PowerPC development, with the caveat that I currently
> lack experience (but am also a fast learner). Along with being a FOSS
> evangelist, I am a longtime Mac user dedicated to the hardware (because
> it is the best, in my opinion), and I'm currently running Xubuntu 7.04
> and 6.10 on multiple iMacs and PowerMacintosh G3s at home.
>
welcome in, hope you enjoy your stay :)
kk
> [Also, on another note, I just "liberated" a Dell Optiplex desktop from
> work, on which I plan to install gNewSense over the weekend.]
>
> Larry Cafiero
> Editor/Publisher
> Open Source Reporter
> http://www.opensourcereporter.net
> (also, "Larry the Open Source Guy" --
> http://larrytheopensourceguy.wordpress.com)
>
>
[1] i suspect multiarch will basicly require a rewrite
--
Karl Goetz
User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org
Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam
User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, (continued)
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/06/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Rich DAddio, 2007/06/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Kevin M. Dean, 2007/06/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Rich DAddio, 2007/06/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Karl Goetz, 2007/06/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Karl Goetz, 2007/06/23
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/06/16
- Re: [gNewSense-users] gNewSense for PowerPC?, Rich DAddio, 2007/06/16
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