Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-05 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/5/19 3:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 3/5/19 8:58 AM, aggaz wrote: >> Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 >> people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE >> to see if their GRUB works [1]. >> >> I was not member of the l

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-05 Thread Noah Wolfe
I'm not frustrated. This is good progress. It's a sight to see such a nice system (minus the PPC64 port, for the immediate moment) being built up and maintained by dedicated people in the community, and I'm very glad I get to be a part of that. I think we've come a long way since June '18. I actua

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-05 Thread Noah Wolfe
Hi Adrian, I fully understand that. I've got another PPC64 install now, so when I have time, I can start trying to bug test everything and at least find some leads as to why some packages do not want to function. Perhaps I can also get around to dealing with that Arctic Fox problem, as can others

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-05 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 11:44:37AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > On 3/4/19 10:24 AM, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > No, the difference is VSX. Altivec is the same instruction set, whether > > on G4, G5, Power5 and later (IBM Power4 did not have Altivec, Power5 did, > > VSX was adde

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-05 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/5/19 8:58 AM, aggaz wrote: > Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 > people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE > to see if their GRUB works [1]. > > I was not member of the list at the time, but now I am. I have a > PowerMac G5 late

Re: News about Firefox for PowerPC

2019-03-05 Thread aggaz
Hello, browsing the mailing list archive I read that on December 2018 people with a Macintosh G5 was kindly asked to try Fedora and OpenSUSE to see if their GRUB works [1]. I was not member of the list at the time, but now I am. I have a PowerMac G5 late 2005 and if this kind of help/test is still