[slackintosh-users] mol redux; future of slackintosh?
- From: Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:36:22 -0800
Hello all,
A quick update: MOL finally works on my iBook. I suspect that MOL
really wanted Altivec support in the kernel; it was either crashing or
causing a kernel panic without it. On 2.6.16 and Altivec, it works
fine. I also strongly suspect that it can not understand HFS
case-sensitive journalled filesystems; my MOL recognizes my
case-sensitive nonjournalled HFS partition, but not the journalled one.
(The partition type in the partition table didn't make a difference.)
So...what's the future of slackintosh, and how can users help? Is it as
''basic'' as tracking Slackware releases, plus adding platform-specific
packages, or are there needs or plans for other additions or
customisations? Also, now that Apple is moving to Intel, will there
still be a push to keep slackintosh up to date? I suspect PPC Apples
will be around for quite a while, not to mention that there are other
boxes that are PPC-based (though they probably get less out of
Apple-specific enhancements). It would be nice to see slackintosh stick
around until most Apple PPC hardware is *really* obsolete, which for me
at least would be a good 4-5 years down the road, minimum. But that's a
long time to maintain a distro with so little new hardware. Is the rest
of the PPC market enough to keep up the work? I dunno, since I don't do
the work. :) Which brings me back to my question: how can we help?
--keith
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