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. -------------------------------------------- En date de : Jeu 21.12.17, Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@bayern-mail.de> a écrit : Objet: [opensuse-ppc] Tumbleweed ppc64 big endian. À: "Fadi Osman" <fospot-ppc@yahoo.com>, opensuse-ppc@opensuse.org Date: Jeudi 21 décembre 2017, 17h21 Hi All, We are using openSUSE PowerPC on our AmigaOnes. Links: - http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3446 - http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=3810 - http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3013 - http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2404 - http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1996 - http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=3784 - http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1985 Downloads: http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/kernel_distros_opensuse.html Further Linux-PPC screenshots: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115515624056477014971 Many thanks for openSUSE PowerPC! :-) Cheers, Christian On 21 December 2017 at 3:19PM, Fadi Osman wrote: things, installation was fine.

(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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