im using my quad g5 is my everyday computer. turn on my i7 macbook only when i need heavy video renders where the g5 will be 2.3x time slower. same is for the x5000 but there altivec is not needed or better altivec software make issue. yes there are many issue on ppc linux. endianess in the gles making wrong colors. issue with glamor and egl but the machines gave really good desktop experiences and not make me thing about using x86 new hw.
luigi Inviato da iPad > Il giorno 08 mar 2017, alle ore 23:46, Riccardo Mottola > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Hi Konstantinos, > > Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: >> I do not disagree on those points, but it's all a matter of resources. >> We do not have the resources of testing on all those platforms, and I >> personally know of no Linux powerpc developer that works on a non- >> altivec system -except for embedded which is a different case. > > define "developer" - I am not a debian developer, but I am definitely an > open-source developer and take proudly care of supporting most architectures > I can and have access to. All the GNUstep stuff I have access to, maintain or > even write myself. > That goes from FTP applications up to 2D FFTs on Images, convolutions, > filters, etc. > > Actually, I use my iBook mostly for that - development and testing. To Browse > the web I use x86 or amd64 nowadays. > It is a fact that the PPC port is mostly about "old macs" so the age of our > HW is older for most! > However I do run debian also on older x86 hardware without the newest > SSE2/SSE3 stuff and it runs. I even have NetBSD on an original Pentium system > and it does work. Apparently most software still copes better with various > x86 differences than e.g. G3 vs G4. > > Currently however, I consider my iBook fully functional - except for the > glitch with the newer kernels breaking ATI xorg, but that is a different > question from here. > > I go further: all the people I know that use PPC use it on older Mac or Amiga > boards. Not cool IBM machines. There is a lot of different usage... from > embedded to datacenters! > > Riccardo >
