[ale] Linux on PPC

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 11:36 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-06-06 at 13:50 +0000, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> > So, are any of you doing any Linux on PowerPC?  Someone gave me an old
> > 2Ghz PowerMac G5 (one of the big full tower aluminum ones that was
> > about $3000+ back when it was new), with 3 GB of memory, and a 1TB
> > hard drive.  It works great/has nothing wrong with it - not even a
> > scratch on the exterior.  It looks like Debian or Yellowdog seem to be
> > the main options for PPC these days...  this thing may be my weekend
> > experiment :)

> Wow...  Weird how things just synchronisticly come together...

> No, I'm not actively working on PPC now although I do have the hardware
> available to me.  In fact, said hardware may be a twin of your own.

> Be that as it may.  Fedora has been released on PPC (32 and 64).

Ah, crap...  Strike that...

> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PowerPC/F20_PPC_release_announcement

Reading in more detail was this unexpected gem (rhinestone)...

-- 
Supported Hardware

IBM POWER servers are the only systems fully supported by Fedora for
Power at this time. 

Apple MacPPC systems are not supported, have not been tested, and are
not expected to work.
-- 

Damn...  Guess that G5 sits a while longer...

> The coincidence is that I'm fielding some bugzilla reports on LXC at the
> moment and one of them is a failure to install lxc-templates on a ppc64
> arch due to a dependency on busybox (which is required).  Seems that
> someone forgot to build busybox for F20 ppc even though it's present in
> F19 ppc.  Still looking for who to lay hands on for that oversight.
> 
> > --
> > Allen Beddingfield
> > Systems Engineer
> > The University of Alabama
> 
> Regards,
> Mike

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