On Jul 20 2008, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, filling the informations in the linked page surely helps. It is > > though a bit hard to gather these informations - the requalification > > page from last year didn't contain some of the informations that are > > requested this time, and with some people it's hard to receive much > > feedback, unfortunately. > > Hmm. I thought there were more technically challenging tasks to be > done ;)
Indeed, caring about the problems about porting some piece of software to another arch may involve a lot of intermediation with upstream. > Since I am currently porting another distribution to Cell as my daily > job, I've got a whole bunch of ppc64 hardware lying around, and most > of it runs Debian, since the "other distro" exists as of now only as a > chroot. It is quite a pity that such hardware is extremely hard to get here. In fact, anything that is not Microsoft or that is not *86 is almost impossible to get. As I understand it, Apple (when they had the PowerPC line) never cared about our market here in Brazil and when I bought my iBook G3, I could have, if I had taken a trip to, say, the US, bought the top of the line PowerBook, with lots of built to order options. I spent more or less 3 times the price of my iBook, if not more. Of course, I would have problems with customs if I did what I just mentioned (having to pay taxes for importing something). Of course, "what a poor country" (ahem!) could offer them in terms of sales? :-( By suggestion of Rhonda, I registered myself as a potential maintainer/helper of the PowerPC port, but as I can't even get wireless working after a lot of blood, sweat and tears with an USB dongle that has sources included in the upstream Linux kernel, I'm prevented from working in many places and didn't include my name there. Oh, sure, the form factor of my iBook is something that I like. And I would like to continue working on PowerPC, as a different platform is way cool and trying to parallelize programs is a really nice thing. But, it seems that I won't be able to, say, get a nice environment on ppc too soon. :-( Regards, Rogério Brito. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
