Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-28 Thread Brian Morris
one other idea (sorry) Debian is not providing an altivec optimized version. If you want that you have to go with Gentoo. If you were building cpu optimized from the ground up with the libaltivec and perhaps the c++ altivec libraries (that require translation for the changed library calls to all th

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-28 Thread Brian Morris
I think that you should start out with something of the sub-netbook type. These are the next generation and coming up very soon. For a home computer you need at least dual core and at those speeds it will need a very low price and small footprint. If you could sneak in on the sub-net quick perhaps

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-28 Thread Chris "Bigguy"
ester, New York --- On Mon, 9/28/09, Chris Friesen wrote: > From: Chris Friesen > Subject: Re: Market research for new PowerPC system > To: "Konstantinos Margaritis" > Cc: linuxppc-...@lists.ozlabs.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, > opensuse-...@opensuse.org >

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-28 Thread Chris Friesen
On 09/26/2009 05:38 AM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > I'm considering funding the design & production of a new PowerPC > system (well, the motherboard, the rest are typical pc stuff and a > case). It might be interesting as a low-power system. For a development box, this looks more intere

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-26 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > > > Ok, just a short comment. In principle I like diversity, competition, etc. > > And it was somewhat sad when Apple abandoned ppc. But honestly - why > > should I be buying a p

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-26 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Hello, first off, I like your idea. This is my public reply, I'll give a personal reply later. On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > I'm considering funding the design & production of a new PowerPC system > (well, the motherboard, the rest are typical pc stuff and a c

Re: Market research for new PowerPC system

2009-09-26 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > (Sorry for the cross-posting, please ignore if you are not interested in this, > CC me as I'm not subscribed) > Hi, > > First some introductions. I'm Konstantinos Margaritis, a long time > Amiga/BeOS/Linux user/developer and a PowerPC fan, for