<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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>
<br>
</div>Ah, crap... Strike that...<br>
<br>
> <a 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></blockquote><div><br></div><div>yeah<br><br>" Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been tested, and are not expected to work."<br><br>
</div><div>Very geared toward new IBM Power systems.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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>
</font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><br>
> 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>
<br>
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