[ale] Linux on PPC

[Jeff Hubbs]

Not an issue with Gentoo.  From 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1#book_part1:

*Apple NewWorld Machines* 	Power/PowerPC microprocessors (G3, G4, G5) 
such as iMac, eMac, iBook PowerBook, Xserver, PowerMac
*Apple OldWorld machines* 	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.
*Genesi* 	Pegasos I/II, Open Desktop Workstation, Efika
*IBM* 	RS/6000, iSeries, pSeries
*Memory* 	At least 64 MB
*Diskspace* 	1.5 GB (excluding swap space)
*Swap space* 	At least 256 MB


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.

On 6/6/14, 12:41 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com 
> <mailto: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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