@mrmasterkeyboard @hexaheximal In terms of architectures I'm mostly limited by time, hardware that I have access to and toolchain support.

• If @musl / #musl (or rather the musl-cross binaries) and #toybox as well as #Linux and #Clang / #LLVM or #GCC support go and #boot is documented porting is relatively "easy"…

• _OS/1337 OFC doesn't have much to it so compared to #AdelieLinux, it should be straightforward.

#OS1337 on #Xenon is quite low on the list but still not on the bottom because I have systems in my possession. Unlike "normal" #32bit #PowerPC systems.

• Mind you I have exactly 0 "#PowerSaving" or other energy optimizations in _OS/1337 (or even multithreading) support built-in, which on most modern systems results in dogshit performance below rated base clock because modern CPUs and Chipsets expect the OS to communicate with them and if it doesn't they gonna assume the OS is fubar and drop into failsafe modes. With some luck they may even prevent the CPU from frying itself and turn on the fan on their own.

I don't have much hands-on aside from mainstream #ix86 / #x86 / #amd64 Systems and #ARMv5r11 / #ARM64 SBCs.

Turning an 800MHz G4 iMac into a Linux Terminal | Adélie Linux, Debian, FreeBSD & OSX Attempts

https://devwithzachary.com/w/aFT9UfsNGyTmng8q3qCvFZ

@gettie @chesheer Sadly not even #AdelieLinux, which @ActionRetro uses all the time...

I am working on an #i486 distro ( @OS1337) but for #i386 the support in terms of Linux ended with Versions 3.4.99 LTS & 3.6.9 respectably, and my #userland & #toolchain (#toybox & #musl-cross) doesn't support that at all, and I'd propably have more success convincing @landley to join #OS1337 than to support i386 even if I could pay him for that!

@thomas_mathoi Zumal selbst uralte #i586 - #Macs noch genug Dampf unterm Hintern haben dass damit noch was anzufangen ist.

• Und wenn die Hardware selbst für #BunsenLabs / @bunsenlabs / #BunsenLabsLinux zu lahm ist dann ist die wieder soweit "vintage" dass es sich lohnt die entweder als "Vintage Macs" an Sammler zu verkaufen oder gleich #AdelieLinux draufzupacken...

https://www.bunsenlabs.org
https://www.adelielinux.org

@codemonkeymike

@ActionRetro has several videos demonstrating modern Linux on late-PowerPC-era Macs. I think #adelielinux is the best bet, currently.

Otherwise, #OpenBSD and #NetBSD will certainly run on it. (:

Wanted to try #AdelieLinux on my old AMD K6, but despite the requirements are met the X-Server does not start.

Tried with a Matrox G400 and a GeForce2...

Ooh, nice, I think I will try this distro out now! I have been eyeing it for a while.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/20/adelie_linux_1_beta_6/

#linux #adelielinux #powerpc #x86

I would like to make sure a program I'm working on works properly on Big Endian systems, but I don't have any hardware with a Big Endian processor, so I've been looking a little bit into #qemu system emulation.

My current state is I'm trying to boot into an #adelielinux. A default installation did not work because it doesn't create an HFS or HFS+ partition for /boot and install-grub (or something related) complain about that. So I manually created the partitions and mount points in the installer and the closest to "not an error" i can get for booting is this:

"Trying to load: from: /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003/disk@8000000[...]00:2,\yaboot ... slash not found" followed by "E3405: No such device".

And I'm not sure what might be wrong exactly. Anything else I've tried so far instead gives "No such device" with less output before it.

No clue if Adelie even has #yaboot.

I'm very open for other suggestions how to get some kind of #BigEndian 64bit linux to do some compiling and running of code on, please ...

🐧 Adélie Linux is an Intriguing Independent Distribution

｢ Unlike numerous other projects, it does not claim to reinvent anything. It just puts forward the goal of POSIX compliance, Libre, user freedom, and privacy ｣

https://news.itsfoss.com/adelie-linux/

#AdélieLinux #Distros #Linux

Update to the last post, I was able to get a discord bot running on the computer. Hopefully, I can get xfce running next. #adélielinux #linux #retrocomputing #discord #discordbot

Today I ran a moden linux distro on a computer from 2003, I was able to run neofetch on it and compile some basic c++ programs. Sadly I was unable to get Doom and XFCE to run yet. #adélielinux #linux #cplusplus #retrocomputing

Adélie Linux 1.0-BETA5
#AdélieLinux #Linux #ARM #POWER #PowerPC
https://alt-f4.cz/adelie-linux-1-0-beta5

Still, better use something like #AdelieLinux on a #G4 #MacBook instead of throwing it away...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEG7pn_cGvI&t=505s via @ActionRetro

Stuff even #AdeliéLinux doesn't serve anymore or couldn't serve with a desktop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArGaJGFVH4 video via @ActionRetro

Adélie Linux začal zveřejňovat nightly builds
#AdélieLinux #Linux #ARM #POWER #PowerPC
https://alt-f4.cz/adelie-linux-zacal-zverenovat-nightly-builds

Unforutnately, I've had to give up on #AdelieLinux for our old first-generation #MacMini - but I am now installing #Debian PPC Port 11.5 on there ;)

I'm wondering why I didn't have the success @ActionRetro did. Must be an expired certificate or something :/

#Linux #install
#PPC
#RetroComputing

@Aminorjourney Did you check out @ActionRetro ‘s video where he installs #AdelieLinux?

Try as I might, I can’t get #AdelieLinux on my G4 Mac mini. Even tried changing the installer to allow unsafe stuff.

Maybe I’ll try in a few days…

#Computing #Linux #AdelieLinux

Totally blaming @ActionRetro for this, but I've been trying to get Adelie Linux running on a G4 Mac Mini today. Nearly there... Promise.