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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Not an issue with Gentoo. From
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1#book_part1">http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1#book_part1</a>:<br>
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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). I've Gentooed a couple
of Suns in the past; solid as a rock.<br>
<br>
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"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com"
target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="">On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 11:36 -0400, Michael
H. Warfield wrote:<br>
> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:50 +0000, Beddingfield,
Allen wrote:<br>
> > So, are any of you doing any Linux on PowerPC?
Someone gave me an old<br>
> > 2Ghz PowerMac G5 (one of the big full tower
aluminum ones that was<br>
> > about $3000+ back when it was new), with 3 GB
of memory, and a 1TB<br>
> > hard drive. It works great/has nothing wrong
with it - not even a<br>
> > scratch on the exterior. It looks like Debian
or Yellowdog seem to be<br>
> > the main options for PPC these days... this
thing may be my weekend<br>
> > experiment :)<br>
<br>
> Wow... Weird how things just synchronisticly come
together...<br>
<br>
> No, I'm not actively working on PPC now although I
do have the hardware<br>
> available to me. In fact, said hardware may be a
twin of your own.<br>
<br>
> Be that as it may. Fedora has been released on PPC
(32 and 64).<br>
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Ah, crap... Strike that...<br>
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> <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>
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" 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... Guess that G5 sits a while longer...<br>
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> The coincidence is that I'm fielding some
bugzilla reports on LXC at the<br>
> moment and one of them is a failure to install
lxc-templates on a ppc64<br>
> arch due to a dependency on busybox (which is
required). Seems that<br>
> someone forgot to build busybox for F20 ppc even
though it's present in<br>
> F19 ppc. Still looking for who to lay hands on
for that oversight.<br>
><br>
> > --<br>
> > Allen Beddingfield<br>
> > Systems Engineer<br>
> > The University of Alabama<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Mike<br>
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