Re: future of debian-ppc
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:55:11AM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:
> Sven,
>
> If there are few powerpc porters left, what is the future of PPC on
> debian, especially for non-mac ppc? Should I even be considering a
> switch from comodity-x86 arch to RS/6000 when I personally am not a
> kernel hacker (I only do python and fortran)? I'll never be paying for
> a commercial linux (e.g. RHES or SuSE) to run the RS/6000; if I could
> afford that I would probably just buy AIX. I'm looking at the RS/6000
> because of its inherent reliability as opposed to x86 reliability based
> on cheap replacement when it breaks.
>
> What is your wisdom on moving from x86 to RS/6000?
Well, it depends on the RS/6000 you are considering, myself i have an interest
in more recent IBM hardware, so that will mostly be supported in the near
term.
On the other hand, there is a good kernel (not debian) powerpc community which
should care about those needs of yours, but the official d-i status is pretty
much a mess, but more bug reports from people like you can only help. Bastian
Blank also is making good work on powerpc kernels at the moment, and there is
a new effort going on for the oldworld machines.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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