Is there a Slackware for PPC project around that is still active?? I have a
slug of older (pre G3) boxes that would loove some flavor of Linux other
than RedHat based.

Any ideas?

DjE wrote:
> Is there a Slackware for PPC project around that is still active?? I have a
> slug of older (pre G3) boxes that would loove some flavor of Linux other
> than RedHat based.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
Debian runs on PPC.

Gentoo is probobly as close to slack as you're going to get.

On 2005-01-23, DjE <anon1981@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a Slackware for PPC project around that is still active??

Not that I know of, no. Slackintosh was pretty decent through about
8.1 or so, but the maintainer has said he's too busy with other
projects to pursue Slackintosh right now.

> I have a
> slug of older (pre G3) boxes that would loove some flavor of Linux other
> than RedHat based.

I've been using CRUX-PPC (cruxppc.sunsite.dk, IIRC), and have been
quite happy with it so far. I don't know exactly how well it'll do
with pre-G3 hardware, but it's got a small footprint, so it's probably
worth a shot.

--keith


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Velvet Elvis wrote:
[slack on PPC]
> Gentoo is probobly as close to slack as you're going to get.

nope, CRUX is definitely closer: no dependency checking.

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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, DjE (anon1981@gmail.com) wrote:

> Is there a Slackware for PPC project around that is still active?? I have a
> slug of older (pre G3) boxes that would loove some flavor of Linux other
> than RedHat based.

I've been in contact with Russell Kroll who has given me permission to take
over the Slackintosh name and continue development for the PPC.

There is work in progress (nothing near a release yet), but things are on
their way.

My plan is *not* to track -current but to port the last stable version of
Slackware over to PPC - current changes too frequently for a port project to
keep up to date with.

Feel free to email me if you'd like any further details or to help out.

Darren.

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Darren Austin wrote:


> I've been in contact with Russell Kroll who has given me permission to
> take over the Slackintosh name and continue development for the PPC.

Just out of curiosity what does porting involve? Do you just change the
compiler flags and re-run the build scripts and then tidy up any errors and
differences? (Noting that the latter may be quite large)

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Peter Chant wrote:

> Darren Austin wrote:
>
>
>> I've been in contact with Russell Kroll who has given me permission to
>> take over the Slackintosh name and continue development for the PPC.
>
> Just out of curiosity what does porting involve? Do you just change the
> compiler flags and re-run the build scripts and then tidy up any errors
> and
> differences? (Noting that the latter may be quite large)
>

Basically yes, but there are lots of gotchas, especially in
booting and in the installer.
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On 2005-01-25, Darren Austin <devnull@afterdark.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I've been in contact with Russell Kroll who has given me permission to take
> over the Slackintosh name and continue development for the PPC.
>
> There is work in progress (nothing near a release yet), but things are on
> their way.

That's great news! Do you have a website/mailing list (or plans for
either)?

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On 2005-01-25, Peter Chant <pete@petezilla.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity what does porting involve? Do you just change the
> compiler flags and re-run the build scripts and then tidy up any errors and
> differences? (Noting that the latter may be quite large)

There are some packages that need to be added to support the differences
between x86 and PPC (boot manager, partition tool (stock fdisk doesn't
support native MacOS-stype partition tables), a few others I can't
recall). And, of course, lilo is useless on a PPC, and there are a few
other packages that are not terribly useful.

--keith

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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Keith Keller (kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.u...:
> > There is work in progress (nothing near a release yet), but things are on
> > their way.
> That's great news! Do you have a website/mailing list (or plans for
> either)?

Not as yet i'm afraid.

I was going to register the "slackintosh.org" domain name and put some details
on there, but it appears some squatter has beaten me to the domain (as well as
the .net and .com ones).

It may be worthwhile changing the name of the project to something more
indictive of the project. Suggestions are welcome

D.

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