[ale] Linux on PPC

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>
wrote:

> 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)...
>

yeah

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

Very geared toward new IBM Power systems.

>
> --
> 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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