Michael Dexter
boosted
update on the FreeBSD ppc64le thing: apparently the ISO does boot on real hardware (Talos II) so for now i expect it will still be a supported architecture in 15.0.
the fact it doesn't boot under qemu is probably still a bug somewhere.
but the difficulty of finding anyone to test this is concerning: it seems like there may currently be *no* developers running ppc64le on real hardware. (as opposed to ppc64, which at least a couple of people use in VMs, often under Linux KVM; as it happens, there were no issues with the ppc64 ISO.)
trying to get anyone to care about the fact that FreeBSD 15.0 is about to be released and the installer doesn't boot on powerpc64le (pSeries / PowerNV) is surprisingly difficult.
re@ is now pestering people to fix it under the threat of declaring it an unsupported platform for the release, but that doesn't seem to be having much effect.
update on the FreeBSD ppc64le thing: apparently the ISO does boot on real hardware (Talos II) so for now i expect it will still be a supported architecture in 15.0.
the fact it doesn't boot under qemu is probably still a bug somewhere.
but the difficulty of finding anyone to test this is concerning: it seems like there may currently be *no* developers running ppc64le on real hardware. (as opposed to ppc64, which at least a couple of people use in VMs, often under Linux KVM; as it happens, there were no issues with the ppc64 ISO.)
trying to get anyone to care about the fact that FreeBSD 15.0 is about to be released and the installer doesn't boot on powerpc64le (pSeries / PowerNV) is surprisingly difficult.
re@ is now pestering people to fix it under the threat of declaring it an unsupported platform for the release, but that doesn't seem to be having much effect.
trying to get anyone to care about the fact that FreeBSD 15.0 is about to be released and the installer doesn't boot on powerpc64le (pSeries / PowerNV) is surprisingly difficult.
re@ is now pestering people to fix it under the threat of declaring it an unsupported platform for the release, but that doesn't seem to be having much effect.
David Vasandani
boosted
It took an embarrassing amount of time, but I was finally able to get Linux installed and running on my old G4 iMac so I can use it as a terminal to access my home servers!
#Linux#RetroComputing#PowerPC#iMacG4#Homelab#SelfHosting#Term #vintagecomputing
It took an embarrassing amount of time, but I was finally able to get Linux installed and running on my old G4 iMac so I can use it as a terminal to access my home servers!
#Linux#RetroComputing#PowerPC#iMacG4#Homelab#SelfHosting#Term #vintagecomputing
Stefano Marinelli
boosted
https://github.com/9001/copyparty
Wow, running this on my #OpenBSD#PowerPc#Macmini#G4
I saw the YouTube recommendation, but i seldom get the "hype"
Then a friend gave me the link
Seems very interesting.
https://github.com/9001/copyparty
Wow, running this on my #OpenBSD#PowerPc#Macmini#G4
I saw the YouTube recommendation, but i seldom get the "hype"
Then a friend gave me the link
Seems very interesting.