[slackintosh-users] Re: slackintosh for G5


Am 28.08.2006 um 18:56 schrieb Adrian Ulrich:

i´m thinking of "porting" slackintosh to G5. Is anyone intresting in
slackintosh-64bit?


Uh.. hm.. oh..

Do you mean 'full 64bit' (like slamd) or a Solaris-like approach
(= 64 bit kernel, 64bit toolchain and maybe 64bit glibc but
 mostly 32bit userland)

?

I think the 64bit kernel+64toolchain will be enough (for the first start). If it works fine, then i will try to build some "multimedia" stuff --> no complete 64bit userland 

#2 could be integrated into slackintosh without much fuss:
  Having some 64bit packages inside eg. /extra + providing
  an 64bit kernel would be enough
  (FYI: The -current install-cd offers a (gentoo's) 64bit kernel)
The "old" 2.6.15? --> this one won´t work on a G5 with nvida card. 

..but for #1 IMHO a 'fork' would be the best solution
(Like slamd <-> slackware)


there already is some super-secret work in this direction in the -dev
mailing list ;-)


Yeah.. $someone built a 64bit gcc on Slackintosh..

Currently neither of us (Marco + /me) is able to work on a 64bit port
because we don't have access to a G5 and eBay has no cheap hardware [1]
I got one of my girlfriend (So no more presents on birthday, chrismas .... for years)


the efforts on a wiki, or we could just put the noise down here :D 

A wiki would be cool but wouldn't be easy to setup because
workaround.ch doesn't run a normal httpd (no apache + co) ;-)


 -- Adrian



1:
http://cgi.ebay.ch/Apple-Power-Mac-G5-Desktop-M9592LL-A- Quad-2-5GHz- Power_W0QQitemZ300021599017QQihZ020QQcategoryZ384QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Looks good: ~300 Euro for an G5 .. but would you buy from an eBay
member located in China with 0 'reviews' ? ;-)
I don´t think this is a "real" offer! The one costs ca. 3500€! 




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