Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Linux User #330250
On 03/23/23 Riccardo Mottola wrote: Just look at TenFourFox and the various bug reports and patches Cameron proposed to mozilla which sometimes got accepted, sometimes ignored. Most noticeably SKIA noit being interested in BE at all, as well as issues with Cairo. I am working on the ArcticFox br

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Thu, 2023-03-23 at 10:41 +0100, Linux User #330250 wrote: > I also see BE disappearing from lots and lots of software. My assumption > is that it simply isn't viable anymore, as most users and developers > have moved on. Even IBM moved on, POWER now is LE. So, I guess, most > developers don't wa

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Private Power9 Hardware Donation
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 r

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 23/03/2023 à 00:43, Riccardo Mottola a écrit : Hi, Didier Kryn wrote:     Another concern is that a software which does run only on one single endianness proves to be buggy and loosely written. High level software such as Firefox should be independant of such considerations, exactly as it s

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thursday, March 23, 2023, Linux User #330250 wrote: > I also see BE disappearing from lots and lots of software. My assumption > is that it simply isn't viable anymore, as most users and developers > have moved on. except in Japan, India, China, and anywhere else in the world where the main C

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
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? >

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Lionel Élie Mamane
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 06:30:53PM +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 03:10:55PM +0100, Private Power9 Hardware Donation > wrote: >> I personally gave up my similar idea of using my Raptor Blackbird >> Power9 as full desktop replacement (...) >> A quite comprehensive over

Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?

2023-03-23 Thread Linux User #330250
On 03/23/23 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: you have fallen as have the very software communities you quote into the trap of assuming "desktop [and HPC]" === "ALL software worldwide". unfortunately it is not, and the loss of BE support because "why would desktop need it??" illustrates tha

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2023-03-23 Thread Riccardo Mottola
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