From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:22:40 +0300 From: "John Waters" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <3d844aa4-fc15-49f5-afcd-9278f16c5b03@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <367fd7fa8559f9bc97200fc6a0a56d8f@csplan9.rit.edu> <3d844aa4-fc15-49f5-afcd-9278f16c5b03@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 98c845b4-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 I always thought that rio would look spectacular on an Apollo DN3500... On 4/23/08, eekee57@fastmail.fm wrote: > 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 ] > >