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#firefox 144.0.2 is available under ARCH Power Linux on my #PowermacG5.

#ppc #ppc64 #vintagecomputing

Yesterday evening I unceremoniously and sadly deleted, one by one, every app every photo every video and every document - all data from icloud - using a lovely pink iPad Mini.

The day before was the same, for several iphones, then a purged Apple Watch too. The laptops were before, long ago. My favorite was the 1Ghz Titanium G4 PowerBook - I'll always miss that perfection.

So, goodbye to modern Apple Inc. I loved your ways and means, your engineering prowess, industrial design, and the inspiration in every direction offered over so many decades.

I'm keeping the water-cooled Quad Core G5 PowerMac (PPC64 970MP A1177). You can attempt to pry it from my cold dead hands alongside a GP101... but please do not touch that one last, beautiful, and forever best example of IBM + Apple innovation - before Apple leadership sold out to Intel, pushed upon every emacs user the worthless Touchbar, and the scissor-chicklet keyboards with a lawsuit. But never forget Liquidass, crowning achievement and example of Apple's downfall.

How sad; sorry about your demise, Apple. I'll miss who you once were.

#osx #macos #apple #ppc64 #g5 #liquidass #iphone #ipad

Con el sun ultrasparc t2000 creo que le voy a hincar el diente directamente con #netbsd porque tiene mogollón de paquetes precompilados, con #gentoo va a ser la puta muerte a pellizcos….

Ya tengo el culo pelao con #gentoo #ppc64 BE

Vamos a reliarla pardísima... instalar @gnome en @gentoo #ppc64... 🤡🤡🤡

actualización de kernel, modulos, bash y otras cosas importantes en @gentoo #ppc64

Arreando emerge al canto...

Checking on shipments before starting the workday to see if the newly acquired (fourth) LC922 is transiting to the colo… and yes, it's true #iLoveIBM!

Still pending OS storage decisions before supply chain:

- remain standardized on dual S4510 / PM863a
- alt standard w/ dual SATADOM for EFI boot handoff to dual NVMe
- introduced new standard of dual 2TB P3608 Optanes
- disregard OS drives and use iSCSI boot
- other ideas… 🙇🏼‍♀️

💞 #POWER9 #PPC #PPC64 #PPC64le 💞

#FreeBSD #Linux #HomeLab

Installing debug symbols for #firefox #ppc64. Yes, that‘s 1GB data. Let‘s see if this fits in RAM.

first experimental big endian #powerpc #ppc64 iso is available: https://repo.chimera-linux.org/live/testing/chimera-linux-ppc64-LIVE-20230620-gnome.iso

here is it running from usb on my 2005 #powermac g5

keep in mind it's a tier 3 architecture, so don't expect perfection

the repo is now experimentally available (tier 3) on big endian #ppc64 #powerpc, for now outside the common infra (thanks @AdelieLinux for the compute resources necessary for the initial repo build, they were most helpful)

buildbot, isos, (maybe 32-bits too?) etc. coming soon

currently bootstrapping the system for #ppc64 (big endian)

minimum cpu is #powerpc 970 (G5); altivec required (this may change in longer term)

32-bit was tested but put on the back burner due to some toolchain issues (may be reevaluated later)

First #ppc64 patch for #guix submitted!

There's a ton of work needed for the ppc64 platform in guix.

#power9

Next at the #RetroComputing #FOSDEM devroom: AOSC OS/Retro - An Introduction
An Ongoing Quest for the Possibility of Modern #Linux on Vintage Hardware

by Mingcong Bai

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/retro_aosc/

https://live.fosdem.org/watch/dretro

#FOSDEM2022 #DECalpha #ARMv4 #i486 #loongson2f #PowerPC #PPC64

Next at the #RetroComputing #FOSDEM devroom: AOSC OS/Retro - An Introduction
An Ongoing Quest for the Possibility of Modern #Linux on Vintage Hardware

by Mingcong Bai

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/retro_aosc/

https://live.fosdem.org/watch/dretro

#FOSDEM2022 #DECalpha #ARMv4 #i486 #loongson2f #PowerPC #PPC64