Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:39:19 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/ ppcnerds newsfeed en http://www.ppcnerds.org/images/logo.gif http://www.ppcnerds.org/ ppcnerds@lists.ppcnerds.org http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article387.html the long waited CRUX PPC version 2.4 multilib is now available. Supports Apple 32bit 'NewWorld' G3, G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER 185 and IBM Chrp 32bit. To increase CRUX PPC usability and enjoyability, starting from 2.4 we do provide ports and pre-compiled for the IcedTea 6 Java Development Kit and OpenOffice 3.0 . See the download page! The CRUX PPC Team -- CRUX PPC 2.4 - GNU/Linux on Power Architecture CRUX PPC - http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/ CRUX PPC Devel - http://cruxppc.crux.it/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:39:19 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article386.html Terra Soft solutions announced the availability of a new workstation platform based on the PowerPC architecture. It is called PowerStation and is described as an "open-source friendly" platform. Since Apple Computers completely left the PowerPC architecture to move to Intel, this is the first time maybe that a Desktop/Workstation level platform is announced. http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/powerstation/breakdown.shtml">Here the specs of this new box. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:09:32 +0200 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article385.html SCALE 6x, the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo will be held in Los Angeles this weekend (Feb 8-10). This will be the 6th annual SCALE conference. Keynote speakers will include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu) and Stormy Peters (OpenLogic). The event will include 5 speaker tracks with over 80 speakers. The expo floor will be packed with open source commercial and non-profit exhibitors, including Silicon Mechanics, Novell, IBM, GroundWork, Postgres, Gentoo and more! Additionally Friday February 8th will mark the return of several mini-conferences including: Women in Open Source (WIOS), Open Source Software In Education, and DOHCS - Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Solutions. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:34:06 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article384.html SCALE is proud to announce they've partnered with LOPSA, the League of Professional System Administrators, to create "SCALE University". SCALE University will conduct two half-day classes on Friday, February 8th at the So Cal Linux Expo. The morning class will be "Open-Source Email Systems: One Approach to Spam Fighting", taught by Austin Godber, a platform engineer for JumpBox. The afternoon tutorial is "Introduction to Virtualization on Linux with Xen"and will be conducted by Chris St. Pierre, a Unix system administrator at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Registration is available online at the SCALE website. SCALE will be held Feb 8 - 10, at the Los Angeles Airport Westin. In addition to the tutorials there will be over 60 speaker sessions, many evening events, and a full expo floor throughout the weekend. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:33:35 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article383.html SCALE has announced its speaker line up for 2008. Speakers will include Don Marti, Josh Berkus (Postgres), Bdale Garbee (HP), Jono Bacon, and others. In addition to the recently announced speaker line up, registration is now open and available online. SCALE will be held Feb 8 -10, 2008 at the Los Angeles Airport Westin in Los Angeles California. Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:33:10 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article382.html Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon has been released and can be downloaded for PowerPC from the Ubuntu servers. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:40:41 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article381.html Registration for SCALE 6X, the 2008 Southern California Linux Expo, opened on Monday night. The community run linux and open-source conference will hold its 6th annual event on Feb 8 - 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to registration, the first set of speakers and exhibitors was announced. Exhibits will include demos from groups such as IBM, Novell, Plain Black, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo, and others. Those interested in speaking still have time to submit an abstract to the call for papers which will close on November 30th. With a strong speaker and exhibitor line up as well as an expanded selection of mini-conferences, SCALE 6X should be the best year yet! Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:40:05 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article380.html In september we are planning to release our CRUX PPC 2.2.1 and maintain it with security fix because is a good distro for embedded and servers. Maybe a pendrive distro (using pkgdiet) �ll be available too. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:39:40 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article379.html The Linux Expo of Southern California, has opened the Call For Papers for the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2008. As with SCALE 5x, S6x will be held at the Westin Hotel at Los Angeles International Airport. If you�re interested in speaking at SCALE, don�t wait to submit your proposal. Over their last couple of events, the Linux Expo has had many more people apply to speak than they have had speaker slots available. See the call for papers for details on how to apply for a speaking opportunity at SCALE. Likewise, if you know someone who has something interesting to say about Open Source software, pass along the CFP to them and encourage them to apply. Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:39:04 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article378.html Slackintosh 12.0 is finally out. This unofficial port of Slackware 12.0 is targeted to the PowerPC architecture. After being ceased some years ago, the project started again and brought Slackware 11 to PPC. We can now download a bootable iso and install the latest release. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:52:43 +0200 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article377.html Power.org, the open collaborative organization that enables, develops and promotes Power Architecture technology, unveiled a robust technical program for the first-ever vendor-neutral Power Architecture Developer Conference, to be held in Austin, Texas on September 24 - 25, 2007. More than 65 hours of technical sessions, panels, hands-on labs, poster presentations and discussions with market leaders are slated for the two-day event. Early bird registration closes on July 31st. To view the schedule or for more information, visit www.power.org/devcon. Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:25:12 +0200 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article376.html We’re glad to announce that the Crux PPC Team will be collaborating soon with ACube Systems to port Crux to their SAM440ep embedded board. The developement will start soon on a fully functional pre-production board. :-) Stay tuned as more news are coming up soon! Wed, 30 May 2007 01:19:30 +0200 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article375.html The Power instruction set architecture has been updated with new features mostly related to virtualization for server oriented implementations of the ISA. The new specification can be found here. Tue, 22 May 2007 12:29:05 +0200 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article374.html Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn has been released and can be downloaded for PowerPC from the Ubuntu servers. Tue, 22 May 2007 12:28:33 +0200 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article373.html Sunday March 11th is the beginning of Daylight Savings Time in America this year. In many other countries DST starts on different dates than it used to as well. To help prevent any issues this could create, Terra Soft Solutions has released DST updates for Yellow Dog Linux 3.x and 4.x. Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:24:47 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article372.html We received from an anonymous reader and are pleased to publish. While a web site updating usually would not be news, PPC nerds is a slacker site that only updates about 2 times a year, as they are too lazy to get their duff and hit the publish button more often than that. Great stories have been published, however most of them are old news and are about things that happened months ago. PPC Nerds is not expected to publish again until sometime in the first quarter of 2008. Thanks for your opinion. Unfortunately, you were wrong on the last assert :) Most of the stories being submitted these days and during last year were press releases. As we do not support any industry and we feel like press releases are not the right way to talk to people, you can understand why this site is updated once in a while. On the other hand we're happy there's a small community still alive around this project. Please, always consider that we did and still doing all this because we like it. We recently switched to a new, more reliable server which can share much more bandwidth. We pay for it and switched to it _silently_. Your opinion is always welcome. Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:37:04 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article371.html Terra Soft is seeking to grow its beta testers for Yellow Dog Linux. These individuals must be proud owners of the usurped New World ROM Apple PowerPC Macs, have tenacity of spirit and dedication of time, and internet connection of undying capacity. As YDL v5.0.1 for the former PowerPC Apple product line is in final beta testing, and needs YOU! For more information and to sign up for the public beta please see http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2007-March/021261.html Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:26:38 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article370.html RapidMind and Terra Soft announced today that they have teamed up to make application development for the PlayStation®3 easier than ever. As part of an agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated, Terra Soft Solutions announced last month the release of Yellow Dog Linux for the PlayStation 3. With the RapidMind Development Platform, developers can easily create applications that will run on the PlayStation 3, as well as other hardware solutions based on the Cell Broadband Engineâ„¢ (Cell BE). Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:25:34 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article369.html Terra Soft Hosted Cell Hack-a-thon. The week-long event granted hands-on code development experience with PLAYSTATION®3 and Mercury, IBM Cell products. The event was a success! Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:24:41 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article368.html Hey, instead of installing Linux on your PS3 why not buying a PS3 already equipped with a Linux distro? Good idea? That's what Terrasoft, the producer of Yellow Dog Linux, is actually doing today. Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:24:08 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article367.html SCALE 5x, the 2007 Southern California Linux Expo will be held in Los Angeles, CA this weeken On Feb 9-11, 2007. It will include: 50+ seminars, 70+ exhibitors, BoFs, and more. Highlighted speakers will include Chris Dibona, Don Marti, Ted Haeger, Jono Bacon, and others. Exhibitors include: Dell, IBM, Verio, Redhat, GroundWork Open Source, ReactOS, Haiku OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and PostgreSQL. One lucky attendee will win a Dual Xeon 1U Rackmount Server from Silicon Mechanics. Two other conference to be held on Friday Feb 9th include: Women In Open Source, and Open Source Health Care Summit. Readers can use the promo code NEWSP for 40% off registration. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:30:18 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article366.html CRUX PPC 2.2.0.2 is almost ready... here the first release candidate: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/downloads/crux-ppc-2.2.0.2-rc1.iso http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/downloads/crux-ppc-2.2.0.2-rc1.iso.md5sum If we get feedback that everything is alright, the stable release will come in the next two weeks. CRUX PPC It took a while to get ready, but the CRUX PPC Team is glad to announce that this release supports Apple PowerPC hardware (both 32 and 64bit), Genesi PegasosII (with some tweaking it should get installed on PegasosI too), Genesi EFIKA (there is a nice howto on the many ways to install Crux PPC on it) and presumably more MPC5200B boards, IBM RISC/6000 32bit CHRP and IBM pSeries. Hardware support for Apple iBooks is almost full, only the proprietary modem drivers don't seem to get along well with recent kernels; all the known issues with the 2.2rc are now solved. Cjg contributed to the project with suggestions, a very cool kernel patch with customized logo, and by porting Ilenia to our ports layout; now you can use Ilenia as your ports/packages management tool, it's on the cd. CRUX PPC repos now include software of daily use like OpenOffice2, mplayer, jre/jdk, eclipse and more (we hope MOL, qemu, gnash and other ports that we already have partly working) will be there soon. The CRUX PPC Team is really looking forward to receive feedback and suggestions; The most useful thing to test is booting and disk detection on all flavours of Apple 64bit, IBM Risc/6000 and pSeries, and on Pegasos{II,I} (they don't own that kind of hardware, so even really simple tests/comments would be helpful). So have fun and please don't hesitate to write on their Forum! The handbook is available here: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/releases/2.2.0.2/handbook.html note that only chapters up to install chapter (included) are up to date, the upgrade chapter still refers to devfs device names, and is missing most of the notes on hardware support. Remaining chapters need small adaptation to the new ports layout and hints on how to use prt-get and ilenia on the multiarch ports tree. And here the nice HowTo on EFIKA install: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/releases/2.2.0.2/efika-howto.pdf it will be soon ported to docbook-xml. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:29:38 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article365.html Originally Yellow Dog Linux v5.0 was slated for late December release, but after a few delays, they have announced the impending release of YDL 5.0 for Power Macs! Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:28:59 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article364.html Ubuntu is a new Linux distro in the PPC market, but shortly after becoming the # Linux distro on the x86 platform but failing to take market share from PPC Linux leader, Yellow Dog Linux, they have decided to pull out of the PPC platform market. Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:28:36 +0100 http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article363.html Terra Soft Solutions' Yellow Dog Linux v.5.0 being announced for the Sony PlayStation 3 in addition to Apple Macintosh Computers has been news catching much attention over the last 3-4 months. Here we present 3 of the more important articles about the home use of this machine. (It is also being used as cluster nodes for super-computing). Sun, 05 Nov 2006 10:17:35 +0100