[haiku-development] Re: Porting Haiku to a current PowerPC hardware
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:31:48 +0200
On 2010-04-28 at 14:12:48 [+0200], Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Philippe Ferrucci wrote:
> > http://www.acube-systems.biz/index.php?page=hardware&pid=2
> >
> > Another great benefit for Haiku is that ACube Systems could sell
> > their computer with Haiku pre-installed. This will show Haiku to a
> > wider audience and it can be a nice move for the system.
>
> What benefit? What audience? The only people interested in that machine
> are PPC and Amiga die-hards and server farms, and the latter two aren't
> interested in Haiku.
>
> There's some curiosity about it, but that's all. Acube will not sell
> more machines thanks to Haiku, and Haiku will not get more users thanks
> to it.
The benefit for Haiku would be to have a complete port for another
architecture. Whether support for that particular board would attract any
new users, I cannot say, but it would definitely help to get Haiku to work
on PPC Macs.
CU, Ingo
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