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Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

158 | #4a94 | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 25 Jan 2019 01:55:12 +01

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Hello all, there are a few new Linux distributions for POWER/ PowerPC. Adelie Linux, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Fienix. FreeBSD is available for POWER9. Byebye

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

974 | #4a97 | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:41:14 +01

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My pleasure :-)

Here is an article about Void Linux or q66 seems to be one of the developers of Void.
https://www.talospace.com/2019/01/void-linux-goes-power9.html#comment-form

Here is the page of Adélie Linux:
https://www.adelielinux.org
Have tried a few links, they work for me:
https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/1.0-beta2/iso/

Alpine Linux only runs POWER8 so far. Work is underway on a POWER9 version:
https://twitter.com/alpinelinux/status/1039619838271004674

Homepage of Fienix
https://fienixppc.blogspot.com

Yocto Linux runs on a T2080 PowerPC from NXP (Freescale). Sorry, I have not found a download link:
https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/tag/yocto/

Then you might have heard of RaptorCS. They offer an open source, blob-free POWER9 system:
https://www.raptorcs.com
Wiki: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Main_Page

There is still a Linux and BSD on PowerPC Facebook group :-)
That's it for now from my side :-)

I really love your OSs lists :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1146 | #4a9a | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:11:40 +01

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Now I'm surprised, I can download Adelie:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DKX1ZPbCizd6aSvrCh0jzaiNZ2OP0H2C/view?usp=sharing

Regarding Fienix I have the following statement from the developer on Facebook (The group has nearly 1000 members):
Quote: "Fienix is a 32-bit Linux distribution (32-bit userland). You can use it with a 64-bit and 32-bit kernel."
I guess this includes G3, G4 and G5 and it definitely works on a T2080RDB. I can ask the developer if he can put more information on the page.

Yes, the Raptor price is not cheap. Raptor offered a discount in November. Blackbird and Quadcore for $ 1000. I ordered it. Should come in March. Tax and shipping costs are not included ;-) But I've been waiting for over a decade. So I could bring a little money on the side ;-)
Raptor even plans a notebook with POWER9:
https://twitter.com/RaptorEng/status/1024410951334993920

The MorphOS ported to POWER9 I doubt, as far as I'm aware they will switch to x86.

AmigaOS is quite possible, because Trevor bought a Talos-II and now howls, that nothing works :-D
https://www.talospace.com/2018/12/who-got-talos-ii-order-1.html

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

602 | #4aa4 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:29:29 +01

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I do not know very well in the Amiga country. No idea what is possible.

I think the RaptorCS notebook is still a long way off. It will certainly not be cheap.

About MorphOS x86 I read in a thread. No idea if that was wishful thinking or insider knowledge.

Here are some suggestions for your PowerPC OS list:
https://twitter.com/mpc7500v2/status/1036699603800924160

I asked Adelie Linux about geo-blocking, no answer so far:
https://twitter.com/mpc7500v2/status/1088846725463318528

Here is a comment from the maintainer of VoidLinux PowerPC:
https://twitter.com/mpc7500v2/status/1089273094672445442

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

228 | #4aa6 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:02:07 +01

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We'll have to wait and see. I have high hopes for RaptorCS.

Promising is Fienix, VoidLinux and Ubuntu-MATE.
https://ubuntu-mate.org

Somehow my feeling tells me that VoidLinux for PowerPC will eventually become official :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

210 | #4ac1 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 02 Feb 2019 18:06:30 +01

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Hello guys, it's me again.

At least as of 2019 Gentoo is offering a image for PPC32, PPC64, I guess be and also PPC64le Talos-II POWER9)
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/#ppc

And Alpine was updated to 3.9

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

74 | #4ac3 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 02 Feb 2019 19:04:55 +01

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Yes, I saw the SPARC list, too. Very nice :-)
A shame, that Alpha is gone.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

193 | #4af6 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:47:29 +01

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Hello guys,

it's me again. I hope you are doing well :-)
If someone is looking for a cheap POWER box, here you go:
https://twitter.com/KarelGardas/status/1095690906575998977

Regards
Karl

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

432 | #4af8 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:48:44 +01

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Hello TCH,

sorry about that. It's a shame money's so unfairly distributed. Even more so when you consider that money today is nothing more than digital zeros and ones. But that's a different story.

Anyway, I didn't want to withhold this information from you.
And it looks like VoidLinux will soon officially support "PPC". I will keep you up to date.
Unfortunately no news regarding Adelie and Geoblocking.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

712 | #4c33 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 28 May 2019 14:14:57 +02

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Hello guys,

I hope you’re all doing fine? I will give you a few updates.

AlpineLinux is at 3.9.4
Fedora 30
Ubuntu 19.04 (only Server, but you could install the GUI)
OpenSuse 15.1
IBM AIX 7.2.3
GNUstep 2.5: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/GNUstep_Live_CD

ArchLinux is now available on POWER (Alpha version, unofficial) 
https://archlinuxpower.org

VoidLinux has now an installer for PPC32 (not public yet). Still unofficial. But works also on Wii and Wii U: 
https://twitter.com/FoxletFox/status/1132014335943950336
https://github.com/void-power/documentation/blob/master/README.md

AdelieLinux has still no installer and the first bunch of Blackbird mainboards should ship this week :-)  

Greetings to all

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

726 | #4c38 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 28 May 2019 19:53:32 +02

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I'm doing fine so far, thanks :-)

You are right with GNUstep, sorry. I just read GNUstep 2.5 and thought this is also available for PowerPC.

I agree, VoidLinux and AdelieLinux look most promising.

VoidLinux goes public, right now. For PPC32, PPC64 and PPC64le. I will install it the next few days. Will you give it a try also?
https://twitter.com/octaforge/status/1133384109865230341

And for AdelieLinux there will also be an installer available until Q3/2019. Because the maintainer of Adelie and Void work closely together.

And Debian 10 is also available for PowerPC over ports. But unfortunately it is no Tier-1 anymore. This is only because the lack of manpower. They are currently switching from Yaboot to GRUB.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

383 | #4c3b | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 28 May 2019 22:24:16 +02

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Debian 9 is also available:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/

The snapshots are Debian 10, but AFAIK they still have problems with GRUB.
Adelie and Void cares a lot about big endian. It's quite funny, on the talos-workstation IRC Freenode channel. When the developers talk about little endian, the maintainer of Adelie says every time, that she also cares about be ;-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

571 | #4c3d | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 29 May 2019 00:40:30 +02

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AFAIK, there are repositories for D9 and D10. They just need feedback from users.
Regards the GNUstepers, the question is, if they are aware that there is still a D9 PowerPC image via ports?

There is also a POWER9BSD (based on FreeBSD)
https://github.com/POWER9BSD/freebsd

HelenOS was updated to 0.9.1:
http://www.helenos.org/wiki/Download

And as of now, Fienix supports PPC64: X1000, X5000 and G5:
https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_15.html

And also a port of OpenBSD will come to POWER9 some day:
https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1133466342567366659

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

369 | #4c3f | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 29 May 2019 14:19:29 +02

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Good catch on REBUG, I saw it, too yesterday lately.

Updating D8 to D9, even D10 should work. I know a few guys who has done this. About POWER9BSD, AFAIK yes. Only source. But it's also on that list:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Operating_System_Compatibility_List

And if you're looking about PowerISA documents:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Power_ISA ;-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

472 | #4c41 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 29 May 2019 15:41:38 +02

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You never know :-D
But I think, it's also useful, if you will do some optimazations.

About systemd, I really don't know. And if you're trying to install D10, try the GRUB-test image:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/grub-test/

About Adelie, I asked on Twitter, but never got a response. Maybe they fixed it without notification.
Anyway, great. If I got news again, I will pop-up.

In the meantime, stay decent and send greetings to Bill Gates :-D ;-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

307 | #4c4f | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 02 Jun 2019 18:54:50 +02

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Hello again,

there were some minor updates from VoidLinux (now works with my PowerBook) and Adelie Linux (Beta 3).

A few pages don't seem to exist anymore:

Website of 

Mandrake Linux (Images are still available)
Peachtree Linux
Slackintosh moved to: https://slackintosh.workaround.ch
MintPPC
CruxPPC

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

208 | #4d7a | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 26 Aug 2019 01:07:36 +02

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Hello my friends,

I hope you are doing all well? :-)

A few little updates:

Gentoo Stage 3 (2019-08-21)
AdelieLinux Beta4
AlpineLinux 3.10.2 (website at the moment offline)
ArchLinux: 2019-Jul-24
Debian 10

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

809 | #4db9 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 17 Sep 2019 20:09:43 +02

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Hi there :-)

CentOS 7.7 was released:
http://isoredirect.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/

Please take note that CentOS 7 PPC64be requires a POWER7:
https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/ppc64

VoidLinux now has a couple of different DEs installed. Plain and simple to use:
https://twitter.com/octaforge/status/1168195489554194433?s=20&fbclid=IwAR3Bl4u5LLG57BedIDJ5zaqT_jm0NkIWrBwD5FRCT4yYfX5fQCudCtu_Cww

ArchLinux has also a new release.

And the highest release of OpenSUSE Leap is 15.1, 42.1 is an older one. Then I also found OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for PPC64 and PPC64le:
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Tumbleweed

I think that's all for now. Sorry to bother you. Later I will try CentOS 7.7 on my Blackbird. 7.6 did not work, sadly :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1561 | #4dbb | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 18 Sep 2019 01:28:19 +02

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That's nice to hear, thank you. Maybe I'll wait with CentOS until version 8 is released:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CentOS-8.0-Next-Week

Maybe then I will have more luck ;-)

In fact, the release numbering on OpenSUSE is quite confusing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE#Releases

Yes, the guys from the VoidLinux port are really impressive. And there are only three of them :-)

They also fixed JAVAScript:
https://twitter.com/octaforge/status/1166018608998297603?s=20

Unfortunately only KDE5 seems to be available on VoidLinux. Maybe it will find its way to PowerPC sooner or later.

Regarding browsers, have you heard of "Arctic-Fox"? :-)
https://github.com/wicknix/Arctic-Fox/wiki/Downloads

Regarding Debian on PPC be: Debian will probably remain at "sid" for now. Because there are no more big endian PowerPCs.
https://www.debian.org/releases/sid/index.en.html

But in the future we can develop our own PowerPC CPU for free. Maybe you've heard of it?

PowerISA goes OpenSources:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/29/intel_10nm_fpga_openpower/
https://www.talospace.com/2019/09/a-beginners-guide-to-hacking-microwatt.html
https://twitter.com/antonblanchard/status/1169865987182616577?s=20

Here is still the YouTube channel of the OpenPOWER Foundation, maybe one or the other presentation is interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNVcHm09eXVbvUzZkQs0_Sg/videos

Here is the latest news from Fedora:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Workstation-Live-PPC64LE

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

592 | #4dc4 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 22 Sep 2019 02:12:17 +02

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Regarding VoidLinux GTK, it looks like it's GTK3. I scrolled through the repository and found GTK+ and GTK+3
https://repo.voidlinux-ppc.org/stats.html

VoidLinux has also a new url.

Yes, KDE5 is slow. But also available in the repo.

I think the reason why much more distros are available now, could be because of Raptor Computing. There are also a lot of be lovers out there, for good reason ;-)
And Raptor also claimed over and over there will be a OpenPOWER laptop coming sooner or later. I think they also knew something about the OpenSource OpenPOWER initiative.

Future will tell.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

740 | #4dc6 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:00:18 +02

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Apart from the fact that you need the AMDGPU OpenSource driver, you also need the firmware:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Add_GPU_Firmware_To_BOOTKERNFW

If this is done, and thanks to "little endian", you can use all newer graphics cards:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/POWER9_Hardware_Compatibility_List/PCIe_Devices#Graphics_Cards

The DMA issue will be fixed with Kernel 5.4:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.4-POWER-Changes

When you use big endian, you're more limited:
https://i.imgur.com/Drt5KYo.jpg

TerraScale is the newest generation that works, AFAIK.

Yes, the price is murderous. But what really kills you are the customs duties and shipping:
https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/User:MPC7500

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1135 | #4dc8 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 24 Sep 2019 17:29:08 +02

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I don't believe it will be back ported to an older Kernel, I'm pretty sure Void will provide the newest Kernel,
because the maintainer will buy a AMD Navi then. Void started also with Kernel 5.0, AFAIK.

Because of the "endianness issue", the maintainer of AdelieLinux mentioned something in this direction.
But I'm not a developer, so I don't really know the subject.

Here are some more links:
Quote: "All AMDGPU targets use ELFDATA2LSB for little-endian byte ordering."
https://llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUUsage.html#header

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96625

I pre-ordered the Blackbird in 2018 on Black Friday. There was a bundle. Mainboard + Quadcore for $999.
The CPU itself costs $375, this means at the end the mainboard had a price of $624.
The heat sink costs only $75 at that time.

The current price increase probably has something to do with the trade war between the USA and China.

Today CentOS 8 should be released: https://twitter.com/CentOSProject/status/1173652996305170432
End of August there was another PS3 CellOS update.
AlpineLinux version you could change to 3.10.2.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

302 | #4dce | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:02:40 +02

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I can't remember, if endian swapping was the only issue. Next time, if I talk to her, I will ask.

Yes, the price increase is terrible, but okay I have mine.

CentOS is a little bit hidden, don't know why:
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8/

CentOS PPC64le isn't an AltArch anymore :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

299 | #4dd3 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 26 Sep 2019 20:38:54 +02

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Right now, it's still very confusing.

They write that among other things the PPC64le is main architecture.
On the main page they refer to x86 only.

I didn't find any release notes for PPC64le (CentOS 8) either.
I guess that PPC64le is for POWER8/ 9 and that they dropped PPC64be (POWER7).

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

412 | #4dd5 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:07:42 +02

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That's it. My guess is, when CentOS 7 came out there was no POWER9 yet.

Therefore:
PPC64le = POWER8
PPC64be = POWER7

And since POWER9 is out, PPC64le is POWER 8 and above.

My guess comes from the GCC corner.
If you build for PPC64le, then for POWER8 and above.

POWER7, for example, doesn't work (properly) in little endian mode. That's why be.

I read this (POWER7 be) on #talos-workstation IRC.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

302 | #4dda | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 28 Sep 2019 20:52:15 +02

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I don't know, but I read it also here:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/fe313521-2e95-46f2-817d-44a4f27eba32/entry/Should_I_run_BE_or_LE_What_should_I_be_aware_of?lang=en

At the end of the first paragraph.
Quote:"So, POWER8 is bi-Endian. POWER7 can only run in BE mode."

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

134 | #4e20 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:34:35 +01

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Hi there,

a little update:

AlpineLinux 3.10.3
Fedora 31
Ubuntu 19.10
Rebug 4.85.1
IBM i 7.4

was released, the most sadly LE only.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

394 | #4e30 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 05 Nov 2019 21:55:12 +01

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Hi TCH,

in Lyon there was a OpenPOWER summit. A keynote was held by Daniel Kolesa, the maintainer of Void:
https://youtu.be/e4ooNubBFJw

He is also mentioning PPC32 and 64be.

And the last generation of hardware acceleration on BE systems is TeraScale 3, because of the lack of rgb10 textures. At the end it's a software issue. Maybe the maintainer of Adelie will work on it in the future.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1255 | #4e32 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 06 Nov 2019 21:35:33 +01

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LOL :-D
Til now I don't tried FreeBSD. Fedora is great, also Ubuntu and Void :-)

Hey, here on your guestbook there is an "Adam". Is he also on FaceBook?
An "Adam" posted also this site on the Linux Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ppclinux/permalink/418754498799160/

On this YouTube channel there are a lot of good videos. This I watch already: https://youtu.be/ufBtrGJVF6g

And I followed a conversation on the Raptor IRC channel. They talked about LE and BE and why IBM switched to LE. One reason was that on BE systems Google had a lot of errors in regard of there binaries. They said it was because of Googles poor code quality :-D

That'a why a lot of people like BE (e. g. maintainer of Adelie), because errors popup on BE which on LE doesn't. Daniel also said a lot of that kind of errors could easily be fixed. But the Google folks are lazy ;-)
And Google Chromium are a nightmare. Also a lot of dependencies.

But I'm not a programer, sadly. So I could not go into depth. But it's always fun to talk with you and a pleasure. It's wired, because I never saw you. I think it's because of the BGAFC :-D
And yes Daniel was a little bit nervous, but it was a good speech, without point and comma :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

260 | #4e69 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 19 Nov 2019 17:35:28 +01

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Hello folks,

two news I have for you:

MorphOS on AMD64:
https://youtu.be/oAUZivdbn-Q

And for about three weeks ago, Dan Dobberpuhl passed away, sadly:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montereyherald/obituary.aspx?n=daniel-dobberpuhl&pid=194350556&fhid=6695

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

928 | #4e84 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 25 Nov 2019 01:12:48 +01

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Regarding AMD64, wow then they certainly still have a lot of work ahead of them, I guess.

The "Endia mystery" seems to be solved. I asked on the Raptor IRC today.We both were right more (you ;-)) or less (me).

Quote: "POWER1 and 2 are big endian only, but POWER3 and newer are bi-endian because they inherit the PowerPC ISA which is defined to be bi-endian"
They also said on the IRC: PowerPC has always been bi-endian but 64 bit bi-endian wasn't supported very well because IBM never supported it in firmware"

She (the maintainer of AdelieLinux) also wrote something about it on her blog:
https://catfox.life/2018/11/03/clearing-confusion-regarding-modern-powerpc-endianness/

AdelieLinux is also making some progress on the graphical installer:
https://twitter.com/AdelieLinux/status/1196189483751944192?s=20
https://twitter.com/AdelieLinux/status/1196961638596911106?s=20

It looks very promising.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

665 | #4e8a | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 28 Nov 2019 14:23:03 +01

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Regarding the PowerISA article, she wrote that she will supplement the article. Let's see.
Concerning Debian, she also wrote that she is disappointed as she also offered her support which was rejected.
FreeBSD BE may only have mentioned it because it is there, without judging how good it is.

Where did you read about Devuan adds support for PowerPC?

I don't know much about the installer. But here is the repo: https://code.foxkit.us/adelie/horizon

And Raptor now also has a forum. Of course the focus is on LE, but BE can also be discussed.
https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1198763904614227974?s=20
https://forums.raptorcs.com

It's a start

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

531 | #4e94 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:10:55 +01

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Regarding the Debian maintainer "problem": Maybe she didn't want to wash dirty laundry in public.

Raptor sales figures are unfortunately not known. Hard to say how good the sales are. All I know is that there were delays in delivery. But that has little validity.

I wrote her a mail with several questions, which she might include in her blog. She at least said that she will update the Endian article.

Oh and at the moment Navi10 doesn't work under PPC64le yet: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/issues/984

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

716 | #4ea1 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:12:51 +01

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Wait a second, you left AMD? As a customer or as an employee?

In the meantime, Navi10 is running:
https://twitter.com/octaforge/status/1203815179898834945?s=20

I found out Alex Deucher from GitLab is an AMD associate.

Yes, I asked her about the Debian debacle. Whether in theory a G4/G5 can also run in LE-mode, if the firmware fits.

On which CPU Windows NT ran in LE-mode. I found this out myself: https://omgwtfbbq.ca/2018/07/installing-windows-nt-4-0-on-a-powerpc/

The URL is funny :-D

That she should do an blog post about the difference of BE/ LE from the developer's point of view and an article about whether there are differences between POWER and PowerPC. In my opinion there can be no difference.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

158 | #4ea2 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 10 Dec 2019 01:00:45 +01

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Ah sorry, I have forgotten one thing.

BeOS download links:
https://winworldpc.com/product/beos/5
https://archive.org/details/BeosVersion5.0.3IntelAndPpc

:-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

512 | #4edc | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 18 Jan 2020 00:21:54 +01

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Hi, guys,

I hope you're all right. I have some updates

There is an update from the following distributions:
Tumbleweed (RR)
Gentoo (RR)
ArchLinux (2020-01-11)
CentOS 8.1
AlpineLinux 3.11.3

And there is a new distribution called PowerEL
https://www.powerel.org

Oh and then recently the linux.conf.au was held in Australia. Among others maybe two interesting videos:

POWER OpenISA and Microwatt Introduction:
https://youtu.be/RU6RPYAqFzE

Open AND High Performance Computing:
https://youtu.be/poUGzQXHTak

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

352 | #4ee2 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:19:55 +01

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Hi,

I'm fine, thanks. Ah and Awilfox didn't update her blog post about endian and stuff till now. And I have forgotten, Debian got an update to 10.2, too.

FYI, there is a replacement for OpenBMC called !BMC (bangBMC). Boot times are faster (90 seconds to 30 seconds) and without systemd.
https://git.anastas.io/dormito/br-blackbird-external

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

431 | #4ee4 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 23 Jan 2020 21:36:04 +01

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We will wait and see, maybe there will be some cheaper models in the future :-)
Ah, and OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 is no longer supported. This you could update, too.
And I have heard that Debian will decide, if PowerPC will be no longer supported via Ports. This would really be a bad thing.

Thank god we have VoidLinux and Adelie. But Adelie is on shaky ground. Awilfox main job is AdelieLinux and AdelieLinux is financed by donations.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

972 | #4ee6 | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 24 Jan 2020 01:02:07 +01

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I'm afraid I have to agree with you and it looks like IBM doesn't care about BE. Recently there was a little discussion about PowerPC BE on the Debian mailing list, an IBMer said, who cares about BE and one of the most active maintainers said, a lot of people care. He also mentioned VoidLinux and I think Adelie, too.

A Raptor staff said about IBM that they only care about hardware, but unfortunately not about software, unless it's their own software.

You can complain a lot about Apple, but they understood this very well, unlike Commodore.

What I already thought about, if you look at the number of Linux programmers. In comparison to the number of Microsoft or Apple programmers, Linux is clearly the number 1, and if all Linux programmers would work together, Linux would be number 1 on all levels within one year.

Linux reminds me a bit of "The Life of Brian"
"Judean People's Front" versus "People's Front of Judea"

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

405 | #4eeb | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:39:44 +01

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We can only hope. Letrs see what happend with RHEL, Microwatt, OpenPOWER, Open Source PowerISA.
Also a good thing is: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/ibm/bounties

Here is the thread about PPC32: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/01/msg00007.html
The previous messages in this thread are also funny ;-)

Here is a good thing, too
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/01/msg00070.html

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

273 | #4eed | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:31:47 +01

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I duno. And about the bounties, you never no. Even if you do a part of the job, you will get money, I guess.

Here are some interesting services:
https://openpowerfoundation.org/minicloud-free-openpower-cloud/
https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/
https://integricloud.com/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

515 | #4f02 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:16:19 +01

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Nice update, but I gotta say, the checkboxes are killing my eyes. But I guess that's just getting used to it. Also I miss the "everything but no / yes" options.
And right now, if you select highest or last version, only Tumbleweed appears, but not Leap. I would look at these distributions separately or like Fedora/ Stream I would put everything on one line.

Here are some minor updates:

Nucleus RTOS V3.x (2017)
RTEMS 4.11.2 (2017)
ENEA OSE 5.9.1 (2018)
PikeOS 4.2 (2017)
Akaros (2015?)
QNX 7 (2017)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

750 | #4f04 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:51:55 +01

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Hi :-)

About the multiple choice selection, you're right. It isn't really an issue. But "all but no" I have only to click a single time. No I have to click yes, ?, partial. But again, it isn't an issue.

Regarding SUSE, if I make this selection:
oses4ppc.php?ft%5B1%5D%5B1%5D=on&ft%5B3%5D%5B1%5D=on&ft%5B3%5D%5B2%5D=on&ft%5B3%5D%5B3%5D=on&ft%5B7%5D%5B4%5D=on

Then only Tumbleweed appears... Ahh ... got it.

If I make this selection:
oses4ppc.php?ft%5B1%5D%5B0%5D=on&ft%5B3%5D%5B1%5D=on&ft%5B3%5D%5B2%5D=on&ft%5B3%5D%5B3%5D=on&ft%5B7%5D%5B4%5D=on

Then Leap 15.1 apears, too. But if I select highest supported version, Leap 15.1 should appear in any case. Because it's the latest and or highest supported Leap version :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

51 | #4f05 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:00:08 +01

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Ah and I just saw SLES is at version 15, also SLED.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

201 | #4f06 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 10 Feb 2020 18:12:48 +01

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Sorry,

and another question: I was pretty sure I saw Windows NT on your list, too. Did you remove it or am I mistaken?

Anyway, here is a download link:
https://winworldpc.com/product/windows-nt-40/40

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

94 | #4f08 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:09:11 +01

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Hahaha, now you got me. I was focused on OSes for PowerPC that I totally forgot the BGAFC :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

168 | #4f0b | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:51:11 +01

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Yes, just saw it. Nice.

FOS sounds good :-D

Another OS pop-uped today, KISSLinux:
https://github.com/jedavies-dev/kiss-ppc64le

A little bit hard to install, I guess?

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

317 | #4f0d | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 13 Feb 2020 00:43:23 +01

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Yes, you're right. What I mean, there is no image you could burn. I will give it a try, as soon as I have a second harddisk.

TBH, I only used MacOS till 2019. But I love challenges :-)

Hey and I just searched for CruxPPC and found this:
https://github.com/tarmiste/cruxppc-ng-3.5

It's from October 2019 :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1109 | #4fa3 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:04:25 +02

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Hello,

I hope you all are well in this Corona madness? It seems BG is nearing its goal of mandatory mass immunization.
I don't see a particularly high mortality rate:
https://www.euromomo.eu/outputs/zscore_country_total.html

I have some updates for the list :-)

AROS (ABIv1) from 2020-04-11
https://aros.sourceforge.io/nightly1.php

Akaros (newer version?)
https://github.com/brho/akaros

PikeOS 5.0
https://www.sysgo.com/the-5-page

Adélie Linux 1.0-RC1
https://www.adelielinux.org/

CellOS 4.86
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps3/

VoidLinux 2020-04-11
https://voidlinux-ppc.org/news/2020/04/new-images.html

Gentoo
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/

AlpineLinux 3.11.5
https://alpinelinux.org/

Plan 9 Source Code
https://github.com/0intro/plan9

WInd River VxWorks 7
https://www.windriver.com/products/vxworks/

Wind River Linux 19 LTS
https://github.com/WindRiver-Labs/wrlinux-x

Yocto Project
https://www.yoctoproject.org/

In two weeks, Fedora and Ubuntu will come.
That's it already :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

600 | #4fa4 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:46:42 +02

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Hello,

I also found a bunch of RTOS for PowerPC:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChibiOS/RT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTAI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomai
https://www.osrtos.com/rtos/trampoline/
https://github.com/embox/embox
https://github.com/echronos/echronos
https://github.com/develersrl/bertos
https://gitlab.denx.de/Xenomai/xenomai/-/wikis/home
https://www.unicoi.com/product_suite_pages/fusion_rtos_product_suite.htm

FreeRTOS PPC405/440
https://www.freertos.org/a00090.html

PPC405
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT-Thread

https://www.osrtos.com/

I dunno if it's worth to list?

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

110 | #4fa5 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:53:03 +02

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Sorry ... and Android on PowerPC
http://www.androidppc.com/
http://biz.einfochips.com/portingandroidonpowerpc

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1095 | #4fa7 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:14:08 +02

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You're welcome :-)

I found even more ... sorry.

Overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_real-time_operating_systems

http://picoos.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/AriZuu/picoos
https://pok-kernel.github.io/
https://www.montenegros.de/sergio/rodos/rodos-de.html
https://quadros.com/products/operating-systems/
http://www.sciopta.com/wip/cpu/
http://www.blunkmicro.com/os.htm
https://rtos.com/solutions/threadx/real-time-operating-system/
http://www.kadak.com/rtos/rtos.htm
https://www.weston-embedded.com/products/cesium
https://www.ddci.com/products_deos_do_178c_arinc_653/
http://www.ecoscentric.com/ecos/ecospro.shtml
https://www.euros-embedded.com/products/real-time-operating-systems/general-purpose/
https://www.ddci.com/products_heartos/
https://www.lynx.com/products/lynxos-178-do-178c-certified-posix-rtos
https://www.hipperos.com/maestro/
https://www.micrium.com/rtos/kernels/
https://epos.lisha.ufsc.br/HomePage
https://www.microware.com/

And yes, the new virus is real and as dangerous as influenza. We will see where this all ends. Yes, BG is Bill Gates ;-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

72 | #4fa8 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:43:21 +02

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ArchLinux got an update today, too
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/alpha/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

432 | #4faa | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:30:30 +02

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Sorry about that. I still noticed it yesterday. Even to figure out the versions ...

For example INTEGRITY RTOS and INTEGRITY-178B Safety-Crtitical RTOS should be available in newer versions.
https://www.ghs.com/products/RTOS_home.html

But I only found this from 2012:
https://www.ghs.com/news/20120104_INTEGRITY_11.html

In 2020 they should be at version 17 or something.

Yesterday I didn't expect that much PowerPC RTOS ;-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

203 | #4fac | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 12 Apr 2020 18:22:42 +02

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That's fine. I don't find anything else.
And hey, if you are interested in the COVID case, here is a pretty good overview. Also in Hungarian :-)
https://swprs.org/egy-svajci-orvos-a-covid-19-rol/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

146 | #4fae | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:17:36 +02

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Yes, I'm in the same boat.

I have noticed that if I make this selection
oses4ppc.php?ft%5B1%5D%5B1%5D=on&ft%5B6%5D%5B4%5D=on

LynxOS pops-up.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1254 | #4ff7 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 09 May 2020 19:18:21 +02

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Hello,

there are a couple of updates again :-)

RHEL 8.2
https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-delivers-force-multiplier-enterprise-it-enhanced-intelligent-monitoring-unveils-latest-version-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8

CentOS 7.8
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/

SLED / SLES 15 SP2
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLED/15-SP2/

AlpineLinux 3.11.6
https://alpinelinux.org/

Debian 9.12
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/2020020802

Debian 10.4
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200509

Fedora 32
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-32/

Ubuntu 20.4
https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-20-04-lts-arrives

MintPPC
http://mintppc.nl/

CruxPPC also updated? I'm not sure
https://github.com/tarmiste/cruxppc-ng-3.5

KISS Linux also updated?
https://github.com/jedavies-dev/kiss-ppc64le

Fienix
https://fienixppc.blogspot.com/p/download.html

Adrian fixed finally GRUB on PowerPC: MintPPC uses also the new images
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/04/msg00190.html

Debian on "maintainers for PowerPC" ...
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2020/04/msg00234.html

I think, that's all :-)

Ahh ... Linux on Microwatt:
https://twitter.com/mikeyneuling/status/1258988075054596103?s=20

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

822 | #4ff9 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 10 May 2020 15:33:05 +02

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I don't know why the images for PPC are always so hidden. But they're here:
https://ubuntu.com/download/server/power

Published on 24.4:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/whats-new-in-ubuntu-desktop-20-04-lts

The MintPPC images are here:
https://www.u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/installation-instructions/

They now also use the images from 2020-04-19.

Concerning Microwatt I only found this one from Twitter. There are also no CPUs yet, just an FPGA implementation.

But maybe something will appear soon. But it sounds more like POWER10.
https://twitter.com/power_gaz/status/1233045456692895745?s=20
https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1258895156079714305?s=20

I guess POWER10 will be released in 2022 at the earliest. It says 2021, but because of the COVID.
https://www.hotchips.org/hc31/HC31_1.3_IBM.v12.pdf

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

548 | #4ffb | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 10 May 2020 23:20:38 +02

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You have to adjust the Ubuntu date to 2020-04-23

It seems you have to install MintPPC ontop of Debian:

Automated install

The preseed file can be found at the following addresses (note: it is web zero zero nine three):

for 32-bits (G3, G4):
http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/d-i/mintppc32/preseed.cfg

for 64-bits (G5):
http://u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/d-i/mintppc64/preseed.cfg

The first thing you need to do is to partition the drive you are going to install MintPPC onto.

But I will ask the maintainer about MintPPC images.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1387 | #5006 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 19 May 2020 23:23:44 +02

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Hello TCH,

I got feedback from the MintPPC maintainer. He said no Mint images anymore. Just follow the instructions. You could only link to the instructions instead of the Debian images.

Then OpenBSD will do a port to PPC64 (I guess big endian):
https://www.talospace.com/2020/05/when-will-openpower-openbsd-be-now-soon.html

On April 1st, REBUG got an update. I thought it was a Aprils fool.
https://rebug.me

A newer version of Haiku?
https://github.com/haiku/haiku

And at the moment there are attempts to compile the source for PowerPC (A few people on the Talos IRC). But it's a little bit difficult, because Haiku used GCC 2.x.

I found accidentally another Linux distribution for PowerPC. Sadly obsolete, I guess.

Source Mage GNU/Linux. Version 0.9.2 is still available:
https://sourcemage.org/Download -> other versions

But they have written in 2016:
"Additionnaly, the distribution is provided with an easy-to-use basic system installer from which administrators can not only install but rebuild to their specification. It is also possible to install from alternative methods, like from a chroot. We currently support x86 and x86_64 architectures. We support ppc as well, but it's getting less activity lately."
https://sourcemage.org/Intro

And is RODOS at Version 202?
https://gitlab.com/rodos/rodos/-/blob/master/VERSION

That should be all for now :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

705 | #5008 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 20 May 2020 15:16:08 +02

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Hi TCH,

regarding OpenBSD: I hardly guess it's PPC64 big-endian. This would include G5 and POWER8/9. First I though it's a port to little endian. But this might be wrong. For instance Debian PPC64 run also on POWER9.

The Haiku PowerPC port is not an easy task. For this we have to wait a little longer. I will install it as soon as it's available. Because I saw showcase about BeOS at the time and I was really impressed.
https://twitter.com/mpc7500v2/status/1192484662632964096?s=20

Finnix got an update these days to 120, but sadly no more PowerPC support.
https://www.finnix.org

I dunno, if version 111 is still supported.

Ah and VxWorks has no POWER8/9 support. I asked them via mail.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

690 | #500c | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 20 May 2020 20:20:31 +02

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About OpenBSD someone already asked the same question:
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200518063754

It seems Haiku will be ported to PPC32/ 64/ 64le. And also a port to SPARC started:
https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/compiling-sparc/

I also found alt linux for PPC64le
https://en.altlinux.org/Main_Page

On DistroWatch was written also big-endian, but I didn't find anything valid.

Also BedrockLinux for all three PPC:
https://bedrocklinux.org/news.html

And PLD Linux (SPARC, too)
https://pld-linux.org/

On VxWorks you could change the question mark to "no" on PPC64le.

I also found one more distribution for SPARC, but sadly I couldn't remember.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1327 | #500e | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 20 May 2020 23:42:19 +02

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Yeah, OpenBSD is a little bit wired. If only OpenPOWER then it should PPC64le, but powerpc64 is be.

Haiku and sparc64 I'm not 100% sure. But it looks like. And a port to PowerPC should give us BeOS binary compatibility, I guess.

alt Linux ppc and ppc64 repos are available. Still searching ISOs.
https://www.altlinux.org/Ports/ppc

A few more SPARC distros:
RHEL 6.2:
http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/sparc/

NeXTstep (sadly no image found, but "exist"
https://winworldpc.com/product/nextstep/4x

Ahh .. here 3.3
https://archive.org/details/NextSTEP_3.3_RISC_Sun_SPARC-HP_PARISC

Inferno should also be executable on SPARC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

MirOS
https://www.mirbsd.org/getting.htm

Amoeba (sadly no working DL link found)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)

Oberon (link doesn't work ATM)
ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/

Splack Linux
github.com/fede2cr/splack_linux

Crash Recovery Kit for Linux
https://sourceforge.net/projects/archiveos/files/c/crash/crash2225-sparc.iso/download

MartUX
https://sourceforge.net/projects/archiveos/files/m/martux/MartUX-OpenIndiana_Edition-151a0-LiveDVD__sun4u_sun4v.iso/download

Plan 9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

Sadly, the most are obsolete :-(

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

521 | #5010 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 21 May 2020 16:35:56 +02

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Sorry, I just realised most of them are sparc32, I guess.

Here I found a list of SPARC distributions:
https://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/203.158.213.3/pub/OS/linux-iso/linux-sparc

Sadly, DL doesn’t work. On page two is also SUSE …

That’s annoying, I found a lot of old Linux distros, but only x86 …
https://soft.lafibre.info

Vine Linux SPARC
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/vine/Vine-2.1.5/CDIMAGE/

PPC
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/vine/Vine-2.6/CDIMAGE/

Snow Leopard on PowerPC
https://g5center.net/2020/05/08/snow-leopard-on-ppc/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

418 | #5012 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 21 May 2020 20:51:39 +02

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Yes, POWER is bi-endian. But if OpenBSD is porting to be, then it would be a good thing when it's also available for G5s.

I'm not talking about 10.5, but 10.6.

Hier is also a beta image of 10.6 for PowerPC:
https://archive.org/details/10.6-snowleopard-10a-190-clientdvd

Here are also a few SPARC images as well. Dunno if it's 32bit or 64bit:
https://archive.org/details/cdromimages?and%5B%5D=sparc&sin=

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

292 | #5018 | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 26 May 2020 17:18:27 +02

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Hi,

yes if they only support OpenPOWER firmware then it's only POWER8 and above.

Here you will find some more SPARC isos. Also in the folder iso:
https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-oracle-sparc/

Here are also some more Fedora 32 images for PPC64le
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

2843 | #5030 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:05:12 +02

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Hello TCH,

there are some updates.

General:

I heard from some people that their virus scanner went on alert when they visited your website. This is surprising to me because there's really nothing special... I then tried VirusTotal and there were two scanners listed as well. Do you know the reason?

About Debian sid: I would refer to the current images:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/

It's better than the other images. I would also remove the links from Debian 9.

SPARC:

RODOS since version 94
https://gitlab.com/rodos/rodos/-/blob/master/VERSION

MarBSD 5.2 (historical)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170606083550/http://openbsd.maroufi.net/download_en.shtml

PowerPC:

Historical:

Darwin and PureDarwin until at least version 9.8?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
https://www.puredarwin.org/
https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin

IBM K42
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K42
https://web.archive.org/web/20090209171846/http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/k42.index.html

NewOS
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewOS

Current

OpenWrt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt
https://openwrt.org/docs/platforms/start

2020-05-15 IBM AIX 7.2 TL4 SP2
https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/aix/selectFixes?release=7.2&function=release

2020-05-27 ArchLinux
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/alpha/

2020-05-27 KISS Linux 0.1.7
https://github.com/jedavies-dev/kiss-ppc64le/releases

2020-05-29 AlpineLinux 3.12
https://alpinelinux.org/

2020-06-09 Haiku R1/beta2 (I would remove the PPC64le entry)
https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta2/

2020-06-15 CentOS 8.2 (CentOS Stream (RR) 2020-06-29)
https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS8.2004
https://www.centos.org/centos-linux/
https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/

2020-06-17 Yocto Project 3.1.1
https://www.yoctoproject.org/

2020-07-01 OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (RR)
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/

2020-07-02 OpenSUSE Leap 15.2
https://news.opensuse.org/2020/07/02/opensuse-leap-15-2-release-brings-exciting-new-packages/
https://software.opensuse.org/distributions/leap

2020-07-04 AROS
https://aros.sourceforge.io/nightly1.php

2020-07-04 Gentoo (RR)
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/

Highlight (new entry)

2020-06-01 Devuan 3.0 (PPC64le)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devuan
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/beowulf/main/

In progress

A fork of Slackware
https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,148.0.html
https://www.riscyslack.org/?Blog

Also another highlight is that IBM also open sourced the PowerPC A2 CPU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_A2
https://openpowerfoundation.org/a2i-power-processor-core-contributed-to-openpower-community-to-advance-open-hardware-collaboration/
https://github.com/openpower-cores/a2i

Hope I didn't forget anything.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1428 | #5032 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:41:05 +02

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I really appreciate your work and your list. And I know how hard it is to maintain the list, and I'm still puzzled by how you figured out the version numbers back then. If I already know which software has been updated, I can provide you with all the information I found. This means that it takes a little longer for me, but you will have it easier afterwards.

The A2 CPU really surprised me and the data looks promising. Unfortunately it doesn't have a SIMD unit, but with a little effort it can be added for sure.

I had read on the blog of Awilfox (The Cat Fox Life) some time ago that they are working on Devuan. On the Devuan website they also ask for PowerPC/ SPARC/ MIPS hardware: https://devuan.org/os/donate. But in the end I was surprised, because I hadn't heard anything about it for so long.

Concerning Darwin and Debian you are right. I had the same thought, but I was not sure and I didn't know that about the virus scanners. Very interesting.

Did you overlook my OpenWrt suggestion or is this not really an OS?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWrt
https://openwrt.org/docs/platforms/start

Available for PowerPC and SPARC. Not sure if SPARC64. I found this:
"1759ea1 conform: XFAIL siginfo_t si_band test on sparc64"
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/changelog-19.07.0

Oh, and I guess there was also an update for WindRiver Linux:
https://github.com/WindRiver-Labs/wrlinux-x/releases

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

469 | #5035 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 08 Jul 2020 22:19:33 +02

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One of the developers of Devuan now has a RaptorCS rig. Dunno if he is willing to port it to big-endian also.
You are right, the only things I found for OpenWrt and PPC64 are outdated:
http://jk.ozlabs.org/blog/post/69/openwrt-initial-patches/
https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/ps3

Hey and some new about OpenBSD and PPC64. The good thing, it's be. The bad thing, POWER9 only ...
https://www.talospace.com/2020/07/when-will-openpower-openbsd-be-now-now.html

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

373 | #5050 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:53:04 +02

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Hello TCH,

a few small updates on your list:

2020-07-17
ArchLinux
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/alpha/

2020-07-18
Debian 9.13
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200718

2020-07-27
ALT Linux 9.1
http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/images/p9/server/ppc64le/

2020-07-29
KISS Linux 0.1.8
https://github.com/jedavies-dev/kiss-ppc64le/releases

That's it

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

2920 | #50d2 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:55:55 +02

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Hello TCH :-)

I have another little update.

2009-03-31 PowerPup Linux beta (based on PuppyLinux)
https://karkuta.firstcloudit.com/

2012-02-12 Frugalware Linux 1.6 (based on Slackware, new entry "exists", no working DL link)
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07106
https://web.archive.org/web/20120829102729/http://www10.frugalware.org:80/pub/linux/frugalware/frugalware-1.6-iso/

2013-05-29 ttylinux 16.1
https://linux.fandom.com/wiki/Ttylinux
https://web.archive.org/web/20150910154851/http://ttylinux.net/dloadMac.html (DL links at the bottom).
New website: https://www.minimalinux.org/ttylinux/
Github: https://github.com/mt3/ttylinux

2014-05-16 QNX 6.5.0 SP1 (last version that supports PowerPC)
https://community.qnx.com/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.bsp/wiki/BSPAndDrivers#section-BSPAndDrivers-PowerArchitecture

2019-10-09 Ataraxia Linux Tech Preview 2 (PPC64, PPC64le)
2020-09-13 Source Code only (for PPC32, no image found)
https://ataraxialinux.github.io/
https://github.com/ataraxialinux/ataraxia/releases/tag/tp2

2020-03-23 T2 SDE 20.3 (PPC32)
2020-04-25 PPC64
https://twitter.com/ReneRebeTM/status/1303358039613898755?s=20
http://dl.t2-project.org/binary/2020/

2020-06-22 PowerEL 7 (date change, only?)
https://mirror0.powerel.org/pel/7/power8/

2020-07-17 IBM AIX 7.2 TL4 SP2 (date change, only?)
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6245788

2020-08-13: Ubuntu 16.04.7 (via updates, no new image)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2020-August/000261.html

2020-09-03 Wind River Linux 10.19.11
https://github.com/WindRiver-Labs/wrlinux-x/releases/tag/vWRLINUX_10_19_BASE_UPDATE0011

2020-09-26 Debian 10.6
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200926
Netinst, Xfce: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/ppc64el/iso-cd/
DVD: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/ppc64el/iso-dvd/

2020-09-30 CruxPPC 3.5 (2nd Alpha)
https://github.com/cruxppc/cruxppc-ng-3.5/releases/tag/alpha-093020

2020-10-02 Adélie Linux 1.0-RC2
https://adelie.blog/2020/10/02/adelie-linux-1-0-rc2-released/
https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/1.0/iso/rc2/

2020-10-04 MorphOS 3.14
https://www.morphos-team.net/news

2020-10-06 ArchLinux PPC32 big-endian!
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/alpha/
https://archlinuxpower.org/

2020-10-07 The Yocto Project 3.1.3
https://www.yoctoproject.org/software-overview/downloads/

Fedora working DL links (Version 7 till 30):
https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/
https://puppet.fedoraproject.org/repo/pub/archive/fedora-secondary/releases/

Fedora Core 4 till 6:
https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/

Nice to see that T2 SDE is still in development. Also Arch for PPC32 was a surprise.
At the end of October there will be also Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

And the OpenPOWER Foundation released a view videos. Also about POWER10. Quite impresive.
https://youtu.be/27VRdI2BGWg

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1270 | #50d4 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 12 Oct 2020 02:08:39 +02

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No need to hurry. The Ataraxia PPC32 drop I have indeed overlooked. Also the SPARC64 port of T2 SDE.

But just now I discovered something else.
Cross Linux From Scratch for PowerPC and SPARC64. At least build instructions: Click the links:
http://www.clfs.org/view/

I wonder if Linux From Scratch is also available for PowerPC and SPARC64. I found this hint:
"The primary target architectures of LFS are the AMD/Intel x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) CPUs. On the other hand, the instructions in this book are also known to work, with some modifications, with the PowerPC and ARM CPUs.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/10.0/LFS-BOOK-10.0-NOCHUNKS.html#pre-architecture

Then there is Lubuntu 12.4 and 16.04 Remix:
https://randommacstuff.blogspot.com/p/powerpc-mac.html

And a manual for Fienix for PPC32. Maybe you can link them at Fienix?
https://randommacstuff.blogspot.com/p/fienix-on-32-bit.html

Unfortunately there is no github or other page about Lubuntu. But Wicknix is very active. He has developed ArcticFox among others.
https://github.com/wicknix

And the download links to Frugalware Linux are unfortunately dead. Archive.org has only saved the directory.

Ah, and the question mark of ALT Linux PPC64 you can delete. I have nothing found.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1646 | #50d8 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:11:06 +02

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Regarding servers: Maybe the Internet Archive would be a possibility?
https://archive.org/details/cdromimages?and%5B%5D=ppc&sin=

Otherwise I have to think of something.

Ah and yesterday I also found the regular LFS version for POWER (non-IA). It is from the same guy who does CruxPPC.
https://github.com/tarmiste/lfs-non-ia

POWER10 is a beast. IBM will probably introduce first computers at the end of 2021. If this will be a candidate for Raptor is in the stars. Because POWER10 will probably use some kind of binary blobs. On Github they have discovered some hints. But the last word has not been spoken yet and it still takes until 2022.

These should be the slides from the POWER10 presentation:
https://regmedia.co.uk/2020/08/17/ibm_power10_summary.pdf

The PowerEL website disappears from time to time. The same is currently the case with Rebug.me.

Here you can find Fedora 15 to 30:
https://puppet.fedoraproject.org/repo/pub/archive/fedora-secondary/releases/

And here Fedora 7 to 13:
https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/

I am surprised that F14 was not available for PPC?

Here is another list of Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

And you can remove the download links of Frugalware Linux. Unfortunately they are all dead. Archive.org has only saved the directory.

This can happen with the password. The good news is, you noticed it. Will they check your work and discuss it with you? If so, it might be a good idea to ask them if they have discovered the password. But the shot could backfire. Depends on the guys.

But all in all, did the work go well? I keep my fingers crossed.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1042 | #50da | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 17 Oct 2020 14:37:04 +02

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The points of criticism you have mentioned here I would also tell the guys and show them the advantage of your approach. But I am glad that you managed to do it anyway. I'm curious to see what you get out of it in the end.

You're right, it's a good idea to keep the dead download links in the list. Regarding Fedora I have to mention that the DL-links of Fedora in the list are dead. Therefore my new links. The same goes for RHEL. Here are the new working links:
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux//enterprise/4/en/
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/

The binary blobs do not affect the CPU itself, but the chip that connects the CPU to the RAM. Concerning the videos you are right. The slides will come straight to the point.

Here are some minor Ubuntu updates, AFAIK no new images
2020-08-06 Ubuntu 20.04.1
2020-08-13 Ubuntu 18.04.5
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Oh and another historical entry: Apple Copland:
https://winworldpc.com/product/mac-os-8/copland

But that should have been it really.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1002 | #50dc | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 18 Oct 2020 03:44:10 +02

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:-)

Should mean: That should have been all the news.

Regarding the links to Fedora and RHEL. You just have to replace the beginning of the URL. The path should be the same. The work will then go pretty fast. Means you only have to change the original server address to: https://archive.fedoraproject.org/ the rest should stay the same

And sorry for the misunderstanding of the links. From time to time I forget to mention important details.

I dunno why IBM goes this way. But we should wait until the details are published. But I suppose it is due to the fact that in the future both DDR4 and DDR5 RAM can be used. I also read that more and more manufacturers are going over to using blobs in their memory controllers. Regarding POWER10 it is perhaps about this one:
https://www.synopsys.com/dw/ipdir.php?ds=dwc_ddr54_controller

Winworld is a good site. There I had found the BeOS images at that time. But I never looked for MacOS X, let alone AIX. But that reminds me, I wanted to look for YDL 7.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

167 | #50dd | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 18 Oct 2020 03:57:17 +02

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Hey, I just found Red Hat Linux 6.2 for SPARC. But is it SPARC or SPARC64?
http://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/

Release date was April 3, 2000.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1355 | #50e0 | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 18 Oct 2020 17:57:36 +02

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Yes and Fedora 31 will be maintained until four weeks after the release of Fedora 33. Which means until Ende of November 2020, I guess.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle#Maintenance_Schedule

Raptor has definitely raised concerns. Maybe it has something to do with the FSF certification.
https://www.talospace.com/2020/08/power10-sounds-really-great-but.html
https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1308862160873848834

Wie have to wait and see.

But it's quite possible that some "cheap" PowerPC SBC will pop-up in the future
https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1304483782116995073?s=20
https://twitter.com/hughhalf/status/1288657079196987392?s=20

Maybe based on PowerPC A2I or A2O
https://www.talospace.com/2020/09/moar-openpower-cores-plz.html

However, it has to be POWER8 compatible (with VMX/VSX).
There is also a fork of Microwatt what added VMX/VSX support
https://github.com/paulusmack/microwatt/commits/vecvsx

You can't do it for everyone with this list. PowerPC has disappeared from the desktop for almost two decades now. There is not much left except Linux and BSD.
I think there are enough people who like this list.

Is Tribblix not for desktop use. Tribblix got also an update: http://www.tribblix.org

Here is MacOS X 10.4.6 and 10.5.8
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-osx-mac-os-10-ppc

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

237 | #50e1 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:55:07 +02

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Update:
OpenBSD 6.8 is out: https://twitter.com/openbsd/status/1317848949907128320?s=20
The website isn't updated. But here it is: https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.8/

macppc, powerpc64 (for POWER9 and 8? only as well as sparc64

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

285 | #50e2 | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 19 Oct 2020 00:59:05 +02

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OpenBSD System Requirements and Supported Devices:
--------------------------------------------------

OpenBSD/powerpc64 6.8 should work on all non-virtualized POWER9
machines with OPAL firmware. This includes the Talos II and Blackbird
systems available from Raptor Computng Systems

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

440 | #50e4 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 21 Oct 2020 00:11:37 +02

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I thought about AmigaOS for POWER, too. Because Trevor bought a TalosII long time ago and AmigaOS last update was in 2016. But I'm not sure about MorphOS since they're moving to x86.

NetBSD was also pushed to 9.1 these days:
https://www.netbsd.org/

There are also a port going on to PPC64le for NetBSD as well as FreeBSD.
Which one is the better BSD, Net, Open or Free? I searched an Google but didn't found something useful.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

226 | #50e7 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:35:49 +02

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Oh no. What a bummer. A big disappointment ...
I was expecting everything, but not this ... these guys could have told you that in the beginning.

Hehe, yes. I should have asked better about the differences of these BSD types.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1367 | #50eb | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 23 Oct 2020 18:18:18 +02

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It was actually not a bad idea to first prove yourself and then tell about the remote work. It could have been that they are so convinced of your work that they accept it.

Have you ever applied to Red Hat? They offer a lot of remote working, although not in Hungary. I would like to try a spontaneous application.
https://careers-redhat.icims.com/jobs/search

I would also refer to some code examples. Then they can see what you have to offer.

I have a well-known guy who got a job offer from Apple (in 2005) because they saw some of his code examples (Altivec) on the internet. But he refused it with the reason that he doesn't want to write x86 vector code.

Or have a look here:
https://remotehub.io/remote-jobs-in-hungary

Or here:
https://hu.linkedin.com/jobs/sql-remote-jobs
https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?q=sql&l=Budapest%2C+Hungary&d=100&u=Km&r=true&j=Contract
https://de.indeed.com/Jobs?q=sql%20Remote&sort=date&lang=en&vjk=a65919cf98f83019

Quote:"We currently offer a full-time remote work setup."

I guess, you know all these sites already.

I think also that maybe NetBSD is the best option. Sadly OpenBSD is BE only.

And again, a few new Updates:

2020-10-17 ArchLinux
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/

2020-10-20 Bedrock Linux 0.7.18
https://bedrocklinux.org/index.html

2020-10-22 Ubuntu 20.10
https://ubuntu.com/download/server/power

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

719 | #50ef | ^ | Idézet | Sun, 25 Oct 2020 00:06:10 +02

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Yeah, I noticed it. I would not surprised if this comes from Google (YouTube) itself. Because, if you have a premium YT account you have the possibility to download, IIRC.

There is also a Hungarian Indeed site:
https://hu.indeed.com/jobs?q=mysql&l=

This looks interesting:
https://www.percona.com/about-percona/careers

A few job boards:
https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/
https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/remote-sql-jobs-SRCH_IL.0,6_IS11047_KO7,10.htm
https://www.ziprecruiter.com/jobs/search?l=Remote&q=MYSQL&remote=full
https://freshremote.work

A big list of remote job boards:
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#job-boards

This sounds promising, but it seems you need an account ...
https://6nomads.com

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

445 | #50ff | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:52:06 +01

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Hi TCH,

I think these are the last updates for this year:

2020-10-15 Wind River Linux 10.19.12
https://github.com/WindRiver-Labs/wrlinux-x/releases/tag/vWRLINUX_10_19_BASE_UPDATE0012

2020-10-21 Alpine Linux 3.12.1
https://alpinelinux.org/

2020-10-27 FreeBSD 12.2
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html

2020-10-27 Fedora 33
https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-33/
https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/

That's all :-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

164 | #5101 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 31 Oct 2020 17:17:44 +01

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EOL of F31 is end of November and F32 in a year:
https://endoflife.date/fedora

End of November comes RHEL 8.3 and AIX 7.2 TL5. HelenOS is actually already overdue.

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

124 | #5103 | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:13:59 +01

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No, but it's a long time since the last update. Maybe the next release will be Version 1.0. Maybe that's the reason?

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

257 | #5110 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:25:41 +01

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Hi TCH,

I just noticed that RHEL 8.3 was released on 2020-10-29. Sadly I didn't find a release note on the RH page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

And PowerEL is back online

2020-06-22
https://mirror0.powerel.org/pel/7/power8/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

2129 | #51d5 | ^ | Idézet | Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:56:19 +01

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Mery Christmas to all :-)

Another little update, I have:

2020-10-26 Glasnost Linux (PPC64, PPC64le)
https://www.glasnost.org/
https://github.com/glasnostlinux/glasnost

2020-11-01 Ataraxia Linux
https://github.com/ataraxialinux/ataraxia/releases

2020-11-12 CentOS 7.9
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-November/035819.html
http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/isos/

2020-11-13 AIX 7.2 TL5 SP1
https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/aix/selectFixes?release=7.2&function=release

2020-12-02 The Yocto Project 3.1.4 LTS and 3.2 (Nov 3), but couldn't find a DL link ...
https://www.yoctoproject.org/

2020-12-03 PS3 4.87
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps3/

2020-12-05 Debian 10.7
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20201205
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/ppc64el/iso-cd/

2020-12-06 LfS 10.0
https://github.com/tarmiste/lfs-non-ia

2020-12-07 CentOS 8.3
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2020-December/048207.html
https://www.centos.org/centos-linux/
https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/

2020-12-07 ArchLinux PPC64le
https://github.com/kth5/archpower
https://archlinuxpower.org/iso/

2020-12-08 T2 SDE 20.10 PPC32, PPC64, PPC64 (PPC970)
http://dl.t2-project.org/binary/2020/

2020-12-09 Windriver Linux 10.19.14
https://github.com/WindRiver-Labs/wrlinux-x/releases

2020-12-13 AROS
https://aros.sourceforge.io/nightly1.php

2020-12-16 Alpine Linux 3.12.3
https://alpinelinux.org/

2020-12-17 OpenSUSE Tumbleweed / MicroOS / Kubic
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/

2020-12-22 Gentoo
https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/

2020-12-22 CruxPPC 3.5
https://github.com/cruxppc/cruxppc-ng-3.5/releases

2020-12-24 Riscyslack (Slackware fork)
https://mirror.riscyslack.org/RiscySlack/riscyslack64-current-iso/

CentOS 6 EOL
https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product

Fedora 31 EOL
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life

New URL for F31
https://archive.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora-secondary/releases/31/

Rebug is still down, but ther project isn't dead, AFAIK
https://twitter.com/Aboshi2011/status/1320350884900052992?s=20

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

596 | #51db | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 26 Dec 2020 18:24:29 +01

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Hello TCH,

every time I think we have all OSes new ones pop up :-)

It seems the ISOs are created daily from Riscy.

LOL, I just read the announcement of CentOS 6 and thought this would be available for PPC ;-)

Ah and you can remove the "beta" from Void. The maintainers said it was not a beta. They are almost on par with the original.

And the ISO of CruxPPC is not alpha anymore. The November release was a beta and the December releases no longer are labeled as beta. So it must be something between beta and final?
Or is it final? I don't know.

How's the job search going?

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

819 | #51dd | ^ | Idézet | Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:36:08 +01

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I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you in any case. Unfortunately, I have had similar experiences with applications. As soon as you mention any handicaps, you are usually out.
In such cases, I would only mention that I can't travel that often at the moment because I have to take care of my mother, for example.
I myself am in favor of honesty. But in such cases, unfortunately, it is not rewarded ...

I have not found any references for CentOS6 on ppc64le.

There are still some distributions that are updated almost daily. On occasion I'll look for them.

From Gentoo there will be an image for ppc64le soon. And did you see the images Kubic and MicroOS for ppc64le at Tumbleweed? These are new. Do you know what they are? I have never heard of it.
https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

1962 | #51df | ^ | Idézet | Tue, 29 Dec 2020 01:46:33 +01

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Well, I have to backtrack a little bit. In the application, you have a cover letter and a CV.
At the beginning I wrote about my handicap in the cover letter. But this turned out to be a mistake, because I got almost no invitations.
Later, I mentioned my handicap in the CV under the heading Military service -> exempt due to my handicap.
In the end, I wrote the same in the cover letter as in the CV. The difference is, if something like that is in the cover letter, it carries more weight. You make the handicap bigger than it is. In the CV it is only a "side note".

I have to or should mention my Handycap, because it is not overlookable ;-)

I would only mention a possible handicap like CFS (if at all) at the on-site interview. It is also of utmost importance to clarify what the handicap means. I have always emphasized that it does not limit me in any way in my work.

I would like to send you my application documents. Maybe they will be an inspiration for you.

I would write your lack of experience in Windows development in the application, because that is a clear thing. But I'm not sure about your lack of high-math experience. I would discuss that better on the spot. Because the people reading the application usually don't have a clue about that kind of stuff. If it goes stupid he thinks, oh he can't do math and you're out.

Next time I could enter my mail in the email field. You then could C&P the address and then delete it from the email field and send me a mail?

Here is MicroOS and Kubic mentioned
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MicroOS
https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Kubic

Last time I tried RiscySlack. A lot of I already tried. But a few are still on my list.

As soon as I win the jackpot in the lottery you get a system for free for sure. But it's really hard to make it. I read about someone who gave away a Blackbird. Unfortunately, he didn't package it well. So a lot of SMD parts fell off ...

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

847 | #51e3 | ^ | Idézet | Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:43:20 +01

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Yes. My handicap is a physical one. I was born too early. Because of that, I had a brain hemorrhage and or lack of oxygen.

I just thought of something, I don't want to know how many people there are who have some kind of handicap without knowing it. If you were to ask them about it, they would say no. That's normal for me, it's always been that way.

You could also say something like that in a job interview, when you realize that people react strangely to your handicap.

So far I have not tested Riscyslack extensively. But the first impression is good and it feels as snappy as Fedora.
The guy with the Blackbird is trying to repair the motherboard using the schematic. But it's really a shame.

I will send (@yandex) you my CV. But I think your CV is first class from what I read here. But it can't hurt in any case ;-)

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

449 | #51e9 | ^ | Idézet | Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:45:04 +01

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Yeah, shit happens. But it could be worse.
Slackware and Debian are the oldest distributions out there, AFAIK.
At least he is trying to repair it. But the schematics alone doesn't help. But he also did ask Reptor for help.

You can send me your CV. Maybe something comes into my mind. Ah and also Proton not Yandex.
And the Apple CPU is really good. But the new Macs at whole are terrible:
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

Carlos (statz)

#14, Jobbfasz (94)

254 | #51eb | ^ | Idézet | Sat, 02 Jan 2021 16:32:13 +01

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LOL, I noticed the line. But did not realize that it is a URL ;-)

Yes, it could have hit me worse. But I would rather not have a handicap ;-)
The highest good is health. When health is gone, no money in the world will help you.

I answered to your mail.