Hello guys,
I'm representing a group of people interested in keeping a ppc64 big endian linux distribution alive: https://www.powerprogress.org/ https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/
No, we're not crazy, we're serious!
There are about a dozen of us in the software group (from almost everywhere in the world) ready to help in testing, debugging etc... We're beginners, but we're willing to learn (and we have a bunch of G5 iMacs and PowerMacs)!
After meeting some OpenSUSE people in France (Alionet), I decided on trying out Tumbleweed ppc64 (be).
So I have installed it last week on an iMac G5, and ... it is great! Really! Thanks a lot for your efforts in keeping it alive and well!
I got some driver issues during installation using the net iso - I had to download the full iso :-(, but besides one or two
Hi Christian,
thanks for your reply, that's encouraging for us... and especially thanks for keeping an history of installation iso!
I am trying to install using the latest iso (Snapshot 20171219)... it's not working.
I have many errors.
I continue my tests, and try to post the list of errors.
One difference from what I had done two weeks ago, I had installed LXDE, and now I'm installing gnome first...
I'll post my findings.
I'm not sure I'll be able to do this before Christmas, so merry Christmas for all.
Fadi.
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En date de : Jeu 21.12.17, Christian Zigotzky
(I'll do the installation again and take note of the errors I got).
I'm beginning to look at OBS and factory and studio - but I'm really just beginning.
(I'm not sure if susestudio works for ppc64...)
My first
"mission" is to use OBS to build a libreoffice package (I couldn't find the ppc64 binaries in any repository).
Thanks again for all your work, and I hope the powerpc mailing list will get more activity :-)
Bye, Fadi OSMAN.
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