Hi Johannes! On Mon, 2023-05-29 at 17:49 +0200, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > just wanted to thank you for your ongoing perservering and > knowledgeable effort to keep supporting PowerPCs! > > I think you're on the right track! Even though I don't find time to > boot my PowerPCs often these days, each time I do I'm happy they `apt > upgrade` and still work. > > So your work is highly appreciated! I think it's part of what makes > Debian great. Even though I understand the structures of Debian are not > always easy ones to work within.
Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate the praise. I don't use old PowerMacs as my daily drivers either. However, I enjoy working on the code and keeping these machines alive. I have learned a lot along the way which is also one of my main motivations. I understand very much when users are frustrating that the installer has still rough edges, I'm frustrated by this as well. But as you can see, the whole situation around HFS(+) is complicated, both considering the code as well as the licenses. I have actually looked into Apple's latest version of »hfs« [1] now and I'm trying to port it to Linux using the patches from Matthew Garret for the diskdev_cmds package (version 540.11). If Apple decides to change the license for »hfs«, we will be able to switch to that codebase immediately. Adrian > [1] https://github.com/apple-opensource/hfs -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
