If you're G4 Powerbook is running Linux - I think you _are_ the target 
market :) 

If your question was about getting a version running under OSX (on PowerPC) 
that may require a bunch of code changes. If you want to try, you're 
certainly welcome to go for it.

We've also managed to convince the code to (mostly) compile/run on AIX. So 
it's pretty flexible.

You can grab binaries for PowerLinux from the Jenkins server 
http://v8ppc.osuosl.org:8080/ - give it a try.


On Tuesday, September 3, 2013 3:38:21 PM UTC-4, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> I know this isn't your target market, but does this mean I can get node 
> running on my old G4 Powerbook?
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Mikeal Rogers 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Great work!
>>
>> On Sep 3, 2013, at 11:41AM, Andrew Low <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Andrew Low and I work for 
>> IBM. I've been building runtime technology for almost 20 years, over that 
>> time I've built Smalltalk VMs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
>> IBM_VisualAge <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VisualAge>), Java VMs (
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**IBM_J9<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_J9>), 
>> and I'm now working on JavaScript runtimes (and this means Node.js too!)
>>
>> Since early this year I've been leading a small team porting V8 to 
>> PowerPC. If you're keen to follow along all of our work it up on GitHub 
>> https://github.com/andrewlow/v8ppc
>>
>> As most of you are aware, Node.js relies on V8 for it's javascript 
>> runtime. This has been a barrier to bringing Node.js to platforms that 
>> don't (yet) have a V8 port. Now that the V8 port to PowerPC is fairly 
>> feature complete, we're able to bring Node.js up on Power Linux. You can 
>> check the code out here: https://github.com/andrewlow/node - 
>> specifically the branch "v0.10.16-release-ppc"
>>
>> We're planning on giving all of this code back to the community - it's 
>> all there on GitHub now and licensed in the same manner as the original 
>> project. So far there are only a handful of changes to the Node.js code.
>>
>> There is also a public Jenkins continuous integration server building 
>> binaries: http://v8ppc.osuosl.org:8080/
>>
>> Limitations: For now it's only 32bit (but the binaries will of course run 
>> just fine on 64bit systems). We're also stuck on the 0.10.x branch of Node 
>> for the time being. We will be working towards removing these limitations.
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