Re: AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread Joe Nosay
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Dean Hamstead wrote: > IBM recently announced a powerpc based public cloud > > > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242457/IBM_hopes_to_Power_cloud_analytics_with_1B_Linux_investment > > not sure if this is relevant and/or helpful. > > obviously powermac soun

Re: AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
IBM recently announced a powerpc based public cloud http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242457/IBM_hopes_to_Power_cloud_analytics_with_1B_Linux_investment not sure if this is relevant and/or helpful. obviously powermac sound card bugs wont be debugged... Dean On 22/11/13 12:34, nello martu

Re: AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread nello martuscielli
well, cheap like a second hand POWER7 system :-D --nello On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > Just for info: > > A-EON's Christmas Cracker! : Special offer on Nemo PowerPC Motherboards for > the holiday season. > -- my blog: http://linuxpowerpc.blogspot.com -- Power Ma

AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Just for info: A-EON's Christmas Cracker! : Special offer on Nemo PowerPC Motherboards for the holiday season. To celebrate the latest delivery of Nemo PPC motherboards, A-EON Technology is pleased to announce a special Christmas promotion on Nemo PPC motherboards and AmigaONE X1000 systems.

Re: AmigaOne X1000/Nemo PowerPC Motherboard

2013-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:52:31PM +0100, Christian Zigotzky wrote: > Just for info: > > A-EON's Christmas Cracker! : Special offer on Nemo PowerPC > Motherboards for the holiday season. > > To celebrate the latest delivery of Nemo PPC motherboards, A-EON > Technology is pleased to announce a spe

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:16:07 -0500 "Lennart Sorensen" wrote: > I think other than the installer needing a bit of work to know the > correct partition setup to use on IBM powerpc systems (as far as I > recall wheezy still doesn't quite do the right thing, although it has > been a while since I did

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 21, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Risto Suominen wrote: > Good idea, Rogério! > > I've been working with powermac sound drivers, and could contribute at > least in that area: automatic detection of sound hardware during the > installation. Plus testing, I still own quite many old powermacs. > > Ris

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Risto Suominen
Good idea, Rogério! I've been working with powermac sound drivers, and could contribute at least in that area: automatic detection of sound hardware during the installation. Plus testing, I still own quite many old powermacs. Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hi there, Yes, that's right, there are new PPC hardware. Look at the following pages: http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/x1000.html http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/sam.html http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewforum.php?f=35 http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewforum.php

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:07:39AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > Motivated by: > > * the results of the last call to porters > * the fact that PowerPC (at least) used to be an architecture where Debian > shined > * the lack of external support (which means that we should help o

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread pferrucci
Hello, > we are essentially orphans of the architecture. Again, would anybody else be > interested in addressing the current problems that PowerPC seems to have? Note that there are PPC users out there you might don't think of. Two companies (links below) build PPC hardware primarily targeting Am

Re: Creating a PowerPC task force?

2013-11-21 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > > Please, let me know if you are interested in joining efforts. I will only > > commit efforts if I see other people contributing, as I have my hands full > > already. > > I'm interested in contributing. While I am an experienced devel