On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 03:10:55PM +0100, Private Power9 Hardware Donation wrote: > On Tue, 2023-03-21 at 00:16 +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:
>> Would a Power-based machine in general, and a Raptor Blackbird in >> particular, be a good freedom-respecting computer to run a Debian >> desktop? > I personally gave up my similar idea of using my Raptor Blackbird > Power9 as full desktop replacement (...) > A quite comprehensive overview over working software was published > by the maintainer of void linux > https://repo.voidlinux-ppc.org/stats.html I find that list quite encouraging. The only red things I recognise and could use (and do use...) are: * signal - seems to really be a porting difficulty... barely supports arm64, and only due to Apple MacOS X switching to it... * texlive-bin - ??? TeX is really really very portable, so I expect this is distro-specific problem; in Debian texlive-binaries is up-to-date on long list of architectures including ppc64el and ppc64 * xfsdump - distro-specific problem? Seems OK on Debian on long list of architectures, including ppc64el and ppc64. Other stuff i: * heavily non-free software... faaar out of my radar, like opera, skype (that still exists even???), slack, steam, zoom * x86 specific stuff: lilo, seabios, tp_smapi, vbetool, wine, syslinux * things that are by nature attached to low-level system stuff, and need to be ported to each arch individually: virtualbox, xen (that's a loss, but I knew about that and the plan is to switch to kvm)
