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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Not an issue with Gentoo.&nbsp; From
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            <td class="infohead"><b>Apple NewWorld Machines</b></td>
            <td class="tableinfo"> Power/PowerPC microprocessors (G3,
              G4, G5) such as iMac, eMac, iBook PowerBook, Xserver,
              PowerMac </td>
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            <td class="infohead"><b>Apple OldWorld machines</b></td>
            <td class="tableinfo"> 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. </td>
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            <td class="infohead"><b>Genesi</b></td>
            <td class="tableinfo"> Pegasos I/II, Open Desktop
              Workstation, Efika </td>
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            <td class="infohead"><b>IBM</b></td>
            <td class="tableinfo"> RS/6000, iSeries, pSeries </td>
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            <td class="infohead"><b>Memory</b></td>
            <td class="tableinfo">At least 64 MB</td>
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            <td class="infohead"><b>Diskspace</b></td>
            <td class="tableinfo">1.5 GB (excluding swap space)</td>
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            <td class="infohead"><b>Swap space</b></td>
            <td class="tableinfo">At least 256 MB</td>
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      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).&nbsp; I've Gentooed a couple
      of Suns in the past; solid as a rock.<br>
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      On 6/6/14, 12:41 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM,
            Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com"
                target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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              <div class="">On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 11:36 -0400, Michael
                H. Warfield wrote:<br>
                &gt; On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:50 +0000, Beddingfield,
                Allen wrote:<br>
                &gt; &gt; So, are any of you doing any Linux on PowerPC?
                &nbsp;Someone gave me an old<br>
                &gt; &gt; 2Ghz PowerMac G5 (one of the big full tower
                aluminum ones that was<br>
                &gt; &gt; about $3000+ back when it was new), with 3 GB
                of memory, and a 1TB<br>
                &gt; &gt; hard drive. &nbsp;It works great/has nothing wrong
                with it - not even a<br>
                &gt; &gt; scratch on the exterior. &nbsp;It looks like Debian
                or Yellowdog seem to be<br>
                &gt; &gt; the main options for PPC these days... &nbsp;this
                thing may be my weekend<br>
                &gt; &gt; experiment :)<br>
                <br>
                &gt; Wow... &nbsp;Weird how things just synchronisticly come
                together...<br>
                <br>
                &gt; No, I'm not actively working on PPC now although I
                do have the hardware<br>
                &gt; available to me. &nbsp;In fact, said hardware may be a
                twin of your own.<br>
                <br>
                &gt; Be that as it may. &nbsp;Fedora has been released on PPC
                (32 and 64).<br>
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              Ah, crap... &nbsp;Strike that...<br>
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              &gt; <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PowerPC/F20_PPC_release_announcement"
                target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PowerPC/F20_PPC_release_announcement</a><br>
              <br>
              Reading in more detail was this unexpected gem
              (rhinestone)...<br>
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            <div>yeah<br>
              <br>
              " Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been
              tested, and are not expected to work."<br>
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            <div>Very geared toward new IBM Power systems.<br>
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                  --<br>
                  Supported Hardware<br>
                  <br>
                  IBM POWER servers are the only systems fully supported
                  by Fedora for<br>
                  Power at this time.<br>
                  <br>
                  Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been
                  tested, and are<br>
                  not expected to work.<br>
                  --<br>
                  <br>
                  Damn... &nbsp;Guess that G5 sits a while longer...<br>
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                  &gt; The coincidence is that I'm fielding some
                  bugzilla reports on LXC at the<br>
                  &gt; moment and one of them is a failure to install
                  lxc-templates on a ppc64<br>
                  &gt; arch due to a dependency on busybox (which is
                  required). &nbsp;Seems that<br>
                  &gt; someone forgot to build busybox for F20 ppc even
                  though it's present in<br>
                  &gt; F19 ppc. &nbsp;Still looking for who to lay hands on
                  for that oversight.<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; &gt; --<br>
                  &gt; &gt; Allen Beddingfield<br>
                  &gt; &gt; Systems Engineer<br>
                  &gt; &gt; The University of Alabama<br>
                  &gt;<br>
                  &gt; Regards,<br>
                  &gt; Mike<br>
                  <br>
                  --<br>
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                  &nbsp; &nbsp;NIC whois: MHW9 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;| An optimist believes we
                  live in the best of all<br>
                  &nbsp;PGP Key: 0x674627FF &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;| possible worlds. &nbsp;A
                  pessimist is sure of it!<br>
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            James P. Kinney III<br>
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