Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-10-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/06 11:28), Clive Menzies wrote: On (25/08/06 03:34), Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Yes, I am interested in it. England is not so far from France, but there is the Channel between us... Maybe do you appear to cross the EuroTunnel to come next year to the FOSDEM in Bruxelles? ;) I'll

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:12 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:16:20PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian powerpc port. Now this has disappeared almost completely. I can

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:11:31AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 21:12 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:16:20PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 09:39 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: We need to rebuild the community, get new and fresh blood, and have some people with an overview of all the problems and TODO items, or simply a coordinated wiki page (andsomeone wiki-friendly who can coordinate it or something) to hold

Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-08-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/06 03:34), Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: Yes, I am interested in it. England is not so far from France, but there is the Channel between us... Maybe do you appear to cross the EuroTunnel to come next year to the FOSDEM in Bruxelles? ;) I'll contact the school and see whether they've made

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Maybe this is because there are so few powerpc porters left in debian ? Or those who used to be porters got interests in something else, leaving only me, which kind of burned out earlier this year ? I'm not talking about d-i. Someone's obviously taking care of the autobuilders etc.,

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Michael Schmitz
Once upon a time, this list was actually used for its purpose as declared on http://lists.debian.org/ports.html Just for the history record, what was the name of that particular list? :) Must have been debian-powerpc... for general powerpc topics, we used to have c.o.l.powerpc -

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:56:06PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: Yep; it's become more of a general ppc users list these days, with a bit of kernel test reports mixed in. The port is quite mature technically, and the autobuilder(s) seems to keep up well. Anyway, I don't recall much

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-25 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 02:06:23PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: Just for the history record, what was the name of that particular list? :) Must have been debian-powerpc... for general powerpc topics, we used to have c.o.l.powerpc - remember when Usenet was the main discussion forum?

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Raven
Le mar 2006-08-08 a 19:18:24 -0400, Harold Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: Hi all, I don't sell PowerPC parts, nor am I affiliated with any individual or organization that does. So I hope this isn't perceived as spam. I just wanted to let you know that if you're looking for

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 04:57 -0400, Simon Raven wrote: WTH are ubuntu people posting here? There are gentoo people, and mandrake people too, which post here. debian-ppc is one of the most (and maybe the most ?) ppc-user mailing list on the net, where one can find help from other users and

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:32 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 04:57 -0400, Simon Raven wrote: WTH are ubuntu people posting here? There are gentoo people, and mandrake people too, which post here. debian-ppc is ... abused as ... one of the most (and maybe the most

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:50:36PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:32 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 04:57 -0400, Simon Raven wrote: WTH are ubuntu people posting here? There are gentoo people, and mandrake people too, which post here.

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian powerpc port. Now this has disappeared almost completely. I can hardly remember the last time a query from another part of the Debian project about the status of a certain aspect of the

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:16 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian powerpc port. Now this has disappeared almost completely. I can hardly remember the last time a query from another part of the

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Harold Johnson
Hi Simon,I know, it's seems like an odd post. I've no programming experience to contribute to the debian-powerpc project; thus far I've only been able to test the results of programmers' efforts, such as by installing the latest (or past) kernels on my OldWorld PowerBook. So how can I contribute?

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Raven
Le jeu 2006-08-24 a 12:07:54 -0400, Harold Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a dit: Hi Simon, I know, it's seems like an odd post. I've no programming experience to contribute to the debian-powerpc project; thus far I've only been able to test the results of programmers' efforts, such

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread dtutty
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:33:29PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:50:36PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:32 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 04:57 -0400, Simon Raven wrote: debian-ppc is one of the most (and maybe the

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:16:20PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian powerpc port. Now this has disappeared almost completely. I can hardly remember the last time a query from another part

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 04:20:14PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:16 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: i.e. to discuss technical issues of the Debian powerpc port. Now this has disappeared almost completely. I

Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-24 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:50:36PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 12:32 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: There are gentoo people, and mandrake people too, which post here. debian-ppc is ... abused as ... one of the most (and maybe the most ?) ppc-user mailing list

Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-08-24 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:17:21PM -0700, Harold Johnson wrote: I don't sell PowerPC parts, nor am I affiliated with any individual or organization that does. So I hope this isn't perceived as spam. I just wanted to let you know that if you're looking for PowerPC parts, contact me and I can

Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-08-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/06 00:04), Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote: I am not so inclined to post here, because I do not want to buy anything (especially old hardware), but I take the opportunity to state that I am looking for Nubus machines to renew the Nubus subarch on 2.6 kernels and to port EMILE (the Mac68k

Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-08-24 Thread Aurélien GÉRÔME
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:38:32PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: I had an 8100/80 running woody - my first Debian/Linux install - and used it as a server up until a year ago. I offered it on this list but there were no takers so I gave it to a local school. I could check if they're using it if

Re: Nubus machines wanted (was: Re: Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts)

2006-08-24 Thread Rich Johnson
[...snip...] That said I'm a user rather than a developer/maintainer. Maybe so, but I seem to recall that your powerpc/debian bootstrap web pages have helped me tremendously. So I'll take this belated opportunity to thank you for them--esp. the Nubus page! I've got a 6116CD (PDM,

Let me know if you're looking for PowerPC parts

2006-08-08 Thread Harold Johnson
Hi all,I don't sell PowerPC parts, nor am I affiliated with any individual or organization that does. So I hope this isn't perceived as spam. I just wanted to let you know that if you're looking for PowerPC parts, contact me and I can direct you to some online resources -- some individual sellers,