On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 03:25:55AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On 08/31/2018 03:03 PM, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:09:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > >> [email protected] wrote: > >> > >>> Debian supports POWER but why not devuan? > >>> > >>> I want a systemd free distro to run on a TALOS 2. > >> > >> My WAG (wild a**ed guess) is that among the fairly small pool of Devuan > >> devs, there aren't enough (if any ?) with the right skills AND access to > >> suitable hardware AND the time and "itch" to work on it. > >> Given the relative availability/usage of the different platforms it makes > >> sense to concentrate on Intel/AMD family, plus ARM, and only when they are > >> "sorted" to more "minority" archs like Power. Being a long time Mac user, > >> I've always had something of a soft spot for the Power architecture - from > >> what I did know, it looked like a "cleaner" arch than Intel 586 and > >> successors. > >> > > > > Trying to provide support for ppc64 is part of the Devuan plans. It > > seems that we have access to a ppc64 build host atm, but we haven't > > started using it as yet. I guess we will get back to it soonish. Any > > help in that direction would be appreciated. > > Excellent. > > IBM offers developers free POWER VPS's to experiment on. > https://www-356.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/stg_com_sys_power-development-platform > > I will also email you contacts for something much better and more easily > obtainable.
I guess we would prefer to have build hosts hosted by trusted people, rather than a service owned by a third party. And this is for a bunch of very good reasons that should be self-evident to a security-aware person like you ;) My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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