Hi Michelle, generally this is a great idea, which also made its rounds on IRC and the list before. From what I understand the main obstacles are not many in number nor difficult to solve, what this project requires most is simply time. As Debian GNU/Linux is already running on ppc's the main thing to do is to build all the packages we distribute for the ppc achitechture (this is in theory relatively simple, on would only have to setup pbuilder for ppc and have to create the packages in a way that they build for different arch'es) and populate the repository with them. Then, and I don't know so much about this stage, one has to alter the liveCD/DVD scripts to build a iso for the ppc architechture et voila. Others, please correct me here if I am wrong with my assumptions! I think if there were some funding for more code sprints we could definitely come up with this, but I think at the moment our focus lies on completing the port of p:d to the Debian system and come up with more documentation. Of course this is only my personal understanding of the current set of objectives! This subject, as you point out will become more and more interesting in the future though, also the question whether or not to come up with a version for amd64, which also will become much more relevant once this 'trickles down' more :).
best, Karsten On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Michelle Klein-Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi guys...I'm Michelle Klein-Hass and like Andy Kaufman used to say, > I'm from Hollywood. > > Mac users in Tinseltown are sweating right now, particularly if they > have high-end G4 or G5 computers that cost lots and lots of money to > them. They are looking down the barrel of Snow Leopard, aka Mac OS X > 10.6.x, which will eliminate support for PPC. I have a MacBook and I'm > actually looking forward to 100% Intel native code in Mac OS X, but I > can totally understand the fear and loathing the advent of Snow > Leopard represents. > > This is not a good time for the motion picture and TV industry, > particularly indie movie production. Someone who made an investment in > a mighty, studly Power Mac G5 for video editing and audio mixing in > 2005 is looking at Snow Leopard coming in 2009 and going "WTF was I > thinking????" > > Standing pat at 10.5 will be an option, but not forever. Eventually > the Mac OS X world will move away entirely from Leopard, and their > aluminum wonder will end up as a White Elephant. Unless they move to > Linux. > > If Mac OS X was truly F/OSS, as Apple likes to boast, a fork of > Leopard could continue to be developed and moved forward. However, > only the inner BSD core of Mac OS, Darwin, is F/OSS, and you might as > well be running FreeBSD or OpenBSD because all the bits that make Mac > OS X Mac OS X are very proprietary. > > These machines need Linux, and they need a Media-oriented Linux in > particular. I have a Power Mac G4 Dual Proc 533 and a single-proc > Graphite G4 up in Santa Barbara, and I'm hoping that with the advent > of Snow Leopard a Power Mac G5 might be inexpensively obtained, > particularly from local academia. I'm hoping to attract some other > people with G5s to this project if it happens. > > Pure:Dyne is the best choice for these machines. I want to create a > Pure:Dyne PPC port. Unfortunately I'm a Linux user and not a Linux > hacker. My boyfriend is a Linux hacker but he has other itches he > wants to scratch first. I need to learn a lot to move this project > forward, but I am willing to learn. > > -- > Windows looking dingy and dull? Try the spiffy, more secure > alternatives! Linux! Macintosh! Two great tastes that go great > together! With the freshening power of xNIX! > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > -- ( c * k ) ^ g
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