Rich DAddio wrote: > ... >> The POWER architecture is NOT dead by any means it's >> just exposed a lot >> less now that Apple is using "regular" chips. > You mean "irregular"... :) > >> As a note, I'd like to encourage everyone who values >> freedom to just >> LOOK at the Power architcture - IBM provides a lot >> of specifications and >> does a ton to keep the platform hackable. They're >> not (to my knowledge) >> developing DRM (like Intel) or adding restrictions >> to their video cards >> (like AMD's framebuffer lock). They offer developer >> access to virtual >> machines - it benefits IBM for your application to >> run, so they have a >> nice developer program. > Also Freescale(former Motorola) has provided pretty > good and widely available documentation for developers > over the years.
Power and Sparc both have open standards bodies, iirc? not sure how that works with the 'open' sparc project. > > >> It's not "as simple" as fixing builder though I >> understand that work IS >> being done on that and progress IS being made. Keep >> in mind that once >> the installer works, packages need to be built for >> the architecture - >> gNewSense does not currently have a PPC repository >> for changes to be >> central. > I assume the goals of the PPC Gnewsense project are > similar to those of the x86 side. I am not sure of > this --I would have to go take a look-- but there may > be some firmware in the drivers that Apple folks are > going to dearly miss. Do you have any indications so > far? i didnt extend the firmware removal routines on ppc, so anything that wasnt auto removed will still be in the build i made. > >> If anyone would like to help, and owns some kind of >> GNU/Linux capable >> PowerPC system I'd urge you to install Dapper >> PowerPC on it and offer it >> up for testing. If you rely on the system to >> function, perhaps it's not >> the best way, but we could test packages on >> different machines. I have a bunch atm, because of the work i was doing on ppc, but not sure if/how long i'll keep them. > Has there been any thought given to an "embedded" > Gnewsense project? Since "slimmed" down completely > free packages for PPC may have a lot of takers in that > domain. I think we need to get ppc+amd64 before slimming :) kk > > Do you have a project pointer?? > > Best Regards, > > Rich d >> - -Kevin -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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