Well let me add a few bits an pieces, that possibly everyone already knows, but for the few remaining, maybe it will make me look clever :-) There IS an 11.2 ppc iso here: http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/iso/ dated 14oct 2009 but only for the netinstall, but I do not see why it should work differently than the x86_64 netinstall, i recently successfully converted to a USB-netinstall using http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ There is still a /PS3 directory with this in it: -rw-r--r-- 1 98 98 4189897 Jan 11 2009 otheros.bld so I think many doors are open - only the future is uncertain - as always and now that i have it downloadet - why not . . . . . . Thomas
On 11/25/2009 at 3:36 PM, "Richard (MQ)" <osl2008@googlemail.com> wrote:
Larry Stotler wrote:
So, what's the interest? I'm not sure how much help I can be other than testing but I'd like to find out who else is using or wanting to use openSUSE on PPC.
I've been using openSuSE on a 1999 G3 iMac (the iconic blue all-in-one model) plus a G3 'Lombard' laptop from the same era. OSL 11.1 runs well but if I'm honest neither machine is used much these days. The laptop keyboard is a bit iffy which doesn't help. We use a lot of PPC based embedded controllers for work (variously running OS-9 or VxWorks) and I've long entertained plans to get it onto one of them, this would be some way from trivial though as there's neither a CD nor USB! This project would be with a colleague who also has a G3 iMac as well as coding skills. Good luck with setting it all up -- Richard (MQ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org