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#1 2006-06-05 00:46:11
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Arch Linux on Apple Power Mac G5?
I see that there is a Arch64 group trying to bring Arch to the PPC architecture. It is difficult to determine if this effort is just starting, or perhaps has resulted in a running PPC version.
To the point, does anyone have Arch running on an Apple Power Mac G5?
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#2 2006-06-05 01:04:23
- syamajala
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Re: Arch Linux on Apple Power Mac G5?
um your kinda confused. arch64 is for making a 64bit version of arch for x86_64 systems. archppc is for ppc. its not 64bit only 32bit.
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#3 2006-06-05 05:22:57
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Re: Arch Linux on Apple Power Mac G5?
i'm sure kth5 will pipe up with something interesting soon about it 
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#4 2006-06-05 10:15:25
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Re: Arch Linux on Apple Power Mac G5?
* archppc has been there long before the x86_64 port. (started around april '04). arch64 has absoluetly no influence on what we do.
* no, archppc has not been tested on G5 so no guarantee from me.
we have user on a POWER5 machine though you might find on irc.
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#5 2006-06-05 17:15:51
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Re: Arch Linux on Apple Power Mac G5?
Yup, I have mixed up the two groups, but the Power Mac G5 *is* 64 bit - that is the source of the confusion. I am hearing that we don't have any Power Mac G5 Arch though, which is too bad!
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#6 2006-06-05 19:12:08
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Re: Arch Linux on Apple Power Mac G5?
Yup, I have mixed up the two groups, but the Power Mac G5 *is* 64 bit - that is the source of the confusion. I am hearing that we don't have any Power Mac G5 Arch though, which is too bad!
a G5 is still a powerpc so archppc could run on it but i am not quite sure about wether archppc is ready for it out of the box.
I recognize that while theory and practice are, in theory, the same, they are, in practice, different. -Mark Mitchell
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