On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 19:09 +0200, Peter Czanik wrote:
The end of an era. For almost a decade I hoped that I could use OBS to build packages for a brand new big endian POWER hardware: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/ When the project started, it even made some sense, not just nostalgia value. But I gave up home (and donations) a while ago.
If openSUSE had a community instance of OBS which would allow the community to connect their own build hosts, it would be possible to use POWER machines from Oregon State University Open-Source Lab (OSUOSL). I have suggested such a community OBS instance for quite a while, but unfortunately there doesn't seem be any interested within openSUSE. So, I have to stick to Debian for maintaining old and obscure architectures.
I still have ppc32 hardware with openSUSE 10.X somewhere in a box: I kept it for nostalgia value, as I worked for Genesi, the makers of the Pegasos PPC workstations for half a decade. But installing the latest openSUSE on a 20 years old hardware does not make much sense anymore...
I actually have two Pegasos-II desktops ;-). Very cool that you worked for them. Adrian