Hi all! I’m seriously curious: does anyone still today use a PPC machine today as (1) main/only workstation with (2) necessary use of latest software and (3) without using it as hobby project?
Best regards, Nicklas > On 8 Jan 2024, at 15:50, Perry E. Metzger <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's been a bit of tension recently because of a group of people who are > very interested in keeping MacPorts working on PowerPC hardware, none of > which has been made for the last 18 years or so. > > I'd like to float the idea that we create a fork of the MacPorts repository > that is devoted to operating systems and hardware that is more than (say) a > decade old, and that we allow the people who are interested in maintaining > that software to freely work on it. It doesn't hurt the rest of us after all, > and it absolves us of the need to keep the main MacPorts repository > complicated by patches to support very old systems. > > This way, people interested in old systems can keep them running, and their > work doesn't take up time for the rest of us and vice versa. > > Perry >
