Power2People MPC8610 Project GNU/Linux CRUX PPC support in category Linux Distributions proposed by Nik Mak on 28th June 2008

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	CRUX PPC 2.6 released! posted by Nik Mak on 19th January 2010 CRUX PPC 2.6 is now available. CRUX PPC is a port of CRUX for the Power Architecture® platform. It’s a GNU system with a Linux kernel and runs on Apple NewWorld (both 32 and 64bit) PowerPC, YDL Powerstation, Genesi PegasosII and EFIKA, ACube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP and pSeries servers. CRUX PPC includes support for laptop-specific features, extended hardware support and server tools. CRUX PPC is a volunteer driven no-profit project based on the releases of CRUX for x86. It contains software written by a lot of different people, each software comes with its own license, chosen by its author. Parts written by CRUX PPC Team are to intend as free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Unlike other distributions, the primary goal of CRUX is not to be the most popular (read: biggest number of users) or to put as many features as possible into the system. The idea is rather to build a streamlined distribution, targetted at a specific audience which in turn gets a system without compromises. The result may not be the best distribution for everybody, but as mentioned above, that’s not the goal. If you’re part of the target audience however, you might enjoy running CRUX just as much as we do. CRUX PPC 2.6 is, as usual, released via two different installation ISO: 32bit and 64bit. The 32bit version is based on a single lib toolchain instead the 64bit one comes with a multilib toolchain. These two versions share the same ports tree. See the download page! CRUX PPC GNU/Linux Project - http://cruxppc.org/ [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC Project current status posted by Nik Mak on 31st March 2009 Our own new server obtained housing from “Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica” of the University “Federico II” of Naples, Italy and at the moment we are only waiting for a public IP. This server will host all CRUX PPC services and cruxcial developmnet and documentation tools. Here they will find a safe home new tools for intelligent automated multiarch testing, ports/packages management and web based project scheduling and management tool. We obtained full housing from University “Parthenope” of Naples for our 64bit PowerPC workstation (that IBM Linux Technology Center provided us) to achieve a better team cooperation over time. At the moment our 64bit PowerPC workstation is broken and we are waiting to resolve any warrantable issues because we must return it to Fixstars USA in Colorado, USA. We hope to resolve in short period because we really need this nice pice of hardware. We recently bought with our own money a second hand IBM Intellistation 2-way POWER4+ workstation to go forward with our work. If You have unused 64bit Power Architecture workstations, please, consider donating them to CRUX PPC. Thanks! CRUX PPC GNU/Linux Project - http://cruxppc.crux.it/ [Permalink]