Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!

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On Feb 24, 7:47 pm, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote:
> Come on, folks, PPC Apple was around for how many years, and the
> only port effort I know of was a university project that I'm pretty
> sure never got anything released. Why do we not want to do anything
> until obsolescence is guaranteed? I think I'll start a Zaurus port,
> that platform has been dead long enough now. If you want to work on
> a port, do sparc64, since you can still buy those machines.

I'd be very interested in a Zaurus port, although in my case it would
be the SL-C3200 that I would be cheifly interested in. I have been
porting a desktop linux distro to it but keep running into trouble,
particulaly with the complexities of gcc and other bloated stuff. I
guess porting a Linux distro to a machine designed for Linux is on a
different level to porting an operating system, but if I can help with
anything I'd like to.

[Irrelevant Moderator's Note:

 You can run OpenBSD on these machines:

 http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html ]