On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:03:47 -0400 Tekk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sam Geeraerts wrote: > > Jason Self schreef: > >> > > > > (Continuing on just -dev, interested parties can join here or read > > the archive.) > > > >> Manpower seems to be the last remaining item, and without someone > >> to actually work on it I'm afraid that the PowerPC port may never > >> get off the ground. > > > > There was some work done on PowerPC in the past ([1], [2]), but > > that info is probably not very useful to work on a metad version. > > > > If you're not going to work on this yourself and nobody in our > > current community steps up then try to find a volunteer in other > > free software on PPC communities (e.g. [3]). Just asking "do you > > want to maintain the PPC port of a fully free distro" might be a > > bit overwhelming, though. Giving them a quick and dirty estimate of > > what's involved probably works better (not that I can tell you much > > about that). You can at least point them to our project pages on > > Savannah [4]. > > > > [1] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Builder/BuilderOnPowerPc > > [2] http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/PowerpcPortStatus > > [3] http://penguinppc.org/ > > [4] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/gnewsense > > > aside from this we have the fact that it'll be outdated pretty > quickly. I haven't heard anything about ppc since the early-mid 00's Its not used in new consumer equipment very much. All the old stuff still exists, and a lot of high end gear (eg, IBM servers) still run on power/power compatible hardware. kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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