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From: "John Waters" <jcwjr215@gma...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:22:40 +0300

I always thought that rio would look spectacular on an Apollo DN3500...


On 4/23/08, eekee57@fas... <eekee57@fas...> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 7:47 pm, j...@csplan9.rit.edu wrote:
> > Come on, folks, PPC Apple was around for how many years, and the
> > only port effort I know of was a university project that I'm pretty
> > sure never got anything released. Why do we not want to do anything
> > until obsolescence is guaranteed? I think I'll start a Zaurus port,
> > that platform has been dead long enough now. If you want to work on
> > a port, do sparc64, since you can still buy those machines.
>
> I'd be very interested in a Zaurus port, although in my case it would
> be the SL-C3200 that I would be cheifly interested in. I have been
> porting a desktop linux distro to it but keep running into trouble,
> particulaly with the complexities of gcc and other bloated stuff. I
> guess porting a Linux distro to a machine designed for Linux is on a
> different level to porting an operating system, but if I can help with
> anything I'd like to.
>
> [Irrelevant Moderator's Note:
>
>  You can run OpenBSD on these machines:
>
>  http://www.openbsd.org/zaurus.html ]
>
>