Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Serge Cohen
Hello list, I have a Mac XServe ppc970/G5 (dual proc., one of the last Apple machine to run on ppc hardware). I was unable to install debian on it due to a lack of CD-ROM drive, and graphic board (it is a «compute node»), but since I have a few other machine of the same type that I might have t

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Risto Suominen
Hi, 2015-02-02 21:44 UTC+02.00, Konstantinos Margaritis : > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short > on cash for another, but if anyone has

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Boris Reinhard
Hello Clemens, aside from the RAM your system is still a nice one for these type of machines, be aware you could still get quite a lot on ebay for it, the other day I saw a G4 iMac with 1.6 GhZ go away for just under 60 Euro tho (usually those go for around 100-120), yours is a much nicer one, BUT

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello, On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:55:15PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Unfortunately the build servers at work are busy being build servers, > so can't do too much experimenting on those, other than in chroots. > One is a p520 and the other a p710. Those are very nice as PPC build > machines.

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Clemens Dürrschmidt
Hi, I have a single core PowerMac G5 that I'm willing to give away. It doesn't have the most amazing specs (1x1.8GHz, GeForce FX 5200, only 512MB RAM but a fast 74GB WD Raptor w/ 1 RPM, a bluetooth module and a SuperDrive) but it works fine. Unfortunately it comes in a very large box (60cm x 6

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Sandeep G.R
We have G5 running with Ubuntu-12.04 in our office but not sure if anyone need it for development. In case no one is using we can sell it for you. I'm using T4240QDS and T4240RDB from Freescale and its very faster compared to G5. I have Debian & Ubuntu running on T4 boards if you need any help let

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 10:48:20PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > It should be quite faster, and the ppc notebook above will use an e6500, > but that will have to wait for a while. In the meantime, I would be fine > with a used iMac G5, I was almost going to get one minutes ago but I > was

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 15:22:01 -0500 "Lennart Sorensen" wrote: > I guess no one is selling IBM pSeries servers used for cheap. > > Are any of the freescale eval boards reasonably priced? After all any > e5500 or e6500 core is PPC64 as well. It seems a T1040 eval board is > $1250 US for a 1.4GHz qu

Re: wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:44:44PM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, > ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I > just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short > on cash for an

wanted: old G5 hardware for use on the ppc64 port

2015-02-02 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
Hi all, I'd like to help on the ppc64 port, I have ppc32 hardware, ppc64/ppc64el remote VM accounts but no actual ppc64 hardware. I just lost an extremely low bid for an imac g5 on ebay and am short on cash for another, but if anyone has a spare G5 (any model, but pref imac so that it can be easy