one other idea (sorry)
Debian is not providing an altivec optimized version. If you want that you
have to go with Gentoo. If you were building cpu optimized from the ground
up with the libaltivec and perhaps the c++ altivec libraries (that require
translation for the changed library calls to all
York
--- On Mon, 9/28/09, Chris Friesen cfrie...@nortel.com wrote:
From: Chris Friesen cfrie...@nortel.com
Subject: Re: Market research for new PowerPC system
To: Konstantinos Margaritis mar...@codex.gr
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, debian-powe...@lists.debian.org,
opensuse
I think that you should start out with something of the sub-netbook type.
These are the next generation and coming up very soon. For a home computer
you need at least dual core and at those speeds it will need a very low
price and small footprint.
If you could sneak in on the sub-net quick perhaps
(Sorry for the cross-posting, please ignore if you are not interested
in this, CC me as I'm not subscribed)
Hi,
First some introductions. I'm Konstantinos Margaritis, a long time
Amiga/BeOS/Linux user/developer and a PowerPC fan, former Debian
Developer, also a SIMD/AltiVec fanatic and the
Just in case anyone feels like flaming about this post, I allowed it
because I thought some of you may feel inclined to provide some technical
advise, enthusiasm for someone else building PowerPC systems. If you
object, then just ignore the post ...
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:38:38 +0300
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
(Sorry for the cross-posting, please ignore if you are not interested in this,
CC me as I'm not subscribed)
Hi,
First some introductions. I'm Konstantinos Margaritis, a long time
Amiga/BeOS/Linux user/developer and a PowerPC fan, former
Hello,
first off, I like your idea. This is my public reply, I'll give a
personal reply later.
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis
mar...@codex.gr wrote:
I'm considering funding the design production of a new PowerPC system
(well, the motherboard, the rest are typical pc
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
Ok, just a short comment. In principle I like diversity, competition, etc.
And it was somewhat sad when Apple abandoned ppc. But honestly - why
should I be buying a ppc
On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
Ok, just a short comment. In principle I like diversity,
competition, etc.
And it was somewhat sad when Apple abandoned ppc. But honestly - why
should I be buying a ppc desktop system? If we restrict our
comparison to
Linux,
