Re: freegeek and m68k

2008-02-24 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > greetings folks. > > i've worked and volunteered at freegeek (http://freegeek.org) in > portland, oregon, usa. the basic jist of freegeek is we take in old, > unwanted computer equipment and attempt to refurbish and get it back > into use, or r

Re: freegeek and m68k

2008-02-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:35:33PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've noticed we get a fair number of m68k macs, and they mostly just go > directly to recycling. we get a variety of Quadras and Performas. i > guess the quadras are the higher-end of the spectrum? > > if folks let me know what m

freegeek and m68k

2008-02-24 Thread vagrant
greetings folks. i've worked and volunteered at freegeek (http://freegeek.org) in portland, oregon, usa. the basic jist of freegeek is we take in old, unwanted computer equipment and attempt to refurbish and get it back into use, or responsibly recycle it. i've noticed we get a fair number of m68

Re: Introductions, thoughts and observations ...

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Casadevall
Err, oops. I forgot to remove the header of this message; I sent a draft to stephen earlier :-/. Michael On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 17:05 -0500, Michael Casadevall wrote: > Hey Stephen, this is a draft of what I've been composing to send to > d-m68k. Its not done yet, but I'd like to get your opinions

Re: FOSDEM thoughts

2008-02-24 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:44:05PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I was told that Debian apparently has also received an offer for holding > some meetings at Google sites, and they reportedly have equipment to > make this kind of video conferences possible; if not, I'm sure we can > find some inte

Introductions, thoughts and observations ...

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Casadevall
Hey Stephen, this is a draft of what I've been composing to send to d-m68k. Its not done yet, but I'd like to get your opinions on it; I need to lie down so I'll finish it tommorow. Thoughts, comments, etc. welcome :-). Michael Hello all, I'm new to this list, but I've recently started working on

FOSDEM thoughts

2008-02-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi all, After going to a conference, I'm usually filled with ideas, and FOSDEM is no different in that regard. Also, it was nice to finally meet cts :-) Matthias Klose was at FOSDEM too, and he asked me whether/when we want to make gcc-4.3 be the default compiler. I said I'd throw it on the maili

Re: gcj-4.3 build failure

2008-02-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:48:42AM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:05:21AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:53:18AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > > gcj-4.3 failed to build on m68k trying to build interpret.cc, timing > > > > out after

Re: gcj-4.3 build failure

2008-02-24 Thread Stephen R Marenka
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 08:05:21AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:53:18AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > > gcj-4.3 failed to build on m68k trying to build interpret.cc, timing > > > out after 600 minutes. this is one of the problematic files taking a > > > huge time

Re: gcj-4.3 build failure

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 07:53:18AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > > gcj-4.3 failed to build on m68k trying to build interpret.cc, timing > > out after 600 minutes. this is one of the problematic files taking a > > huge time to build. please could somebody validate if there is still > > progress,

Re: Xorg on m68k

2008-02-24 Thread Michael Schmitz
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > For cfb16 on Falcon I see no direct problems. Perhaps it just failed > > because DefaultDepth in /etc/X11/xorg.conf defaults to 24 these days? > > the problem I faced was that I couldn't *boot* in the 16bit color depth > so I *thought* I couldn't run X, or something