Hi,
Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi All!
Did anything ever come of this? What can we do to make it happen? now that the
holidays are over and we each have a little more free time…
Rick
I missed that message! I love PPC and I am still very sad it is getting,
along with MIPS; a second-level platform with x86 and ARM now having the
dominance.
I use PPC on two iBooks one with MacOS with Debian, on two iBooks, to
check that all thw GNUstep software I am involved with works on that
wonderful platform. I veryfy compilation natively and then on
Debian+GNUstep. There are, however, lots of difficulties!
People code less and less for big-endian platforms and for non-x86 as
you write lots of stuff breaks.
X currently for me is in bad shape: the driver is crashing with cairo (I
hope the patch gets into debian soon) and I have skewed colors. I can
survive by exporting X and testing stuff this way, but it is again a
proof of this "uphill battle".
a lot of work goes beyond debian, it goes in fixes that would benefit
also BSD and others, since they are fixes in the userland!
I'm not using them currently, but I would have available an older 9600
running NetBSD, which always had SCSI problems, and 9500 which had a G4
card which I never got running full speed and I don't remember which OS
it was running. I could dust them off :)
GNUstep stuff is a good candiate, since it is quite designed to be
corss-platform and most developers, not just me, are receptive about
platform compatibility. However Debian is our worst-packaged
distribution... so well, not brightnews.
Riccardo
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