On 06/17/2018 08:52 AM, Andreas Grapentin wrote: > > Hello Donald, > > I am happy to announce that we have managed to successfully bootstrap > parabola for powerpc64le. I attached a screenshot of the first > interactive session of the first successful virtualized boot. > > It's of course going to be a lot of work to extend this preliminary port > to a usable distribution - and we will need to talk about how this work > is going to be organized - but at the moment the port is at least > self-hosting, reasonably self-contained, follows the same packaging > guidelines as mainline parabola, and was created entirely on parabola > using only free software. > > I'll be back early next week with more information and a downloadable > virtual machine image for everyone to take a look at. My internet > connection at home is unfortunately too unreliable for uploading the > package repositories and the VM image, but I wanted to keep my promise > of delivering something this week ;) > > Best, > Andreas
Wow, that's amazing. I really look forward to seeing the image. -- Donald R. Robertson, III, J.D. Licensing & Compliance Manager Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor Boston, MA 02110 Phone +1-617-542-5942 Fax +1-617-542-2652 ex. 56
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