Re: Is a Raptor Blackbird (or other Power machine) a good general-purpose desktop?
On Tue, 2023-03-21 at 00:16 +0100, Lionel Élie Mamane wrote:
> Would a Power-based machine in general, and a Raptor Blackbird in
> particular, be a good freedom-respecting computer to run a Debian
> desktop?
I personally gave up my similar idea of using my Raptor Blackbird Power9 as full
desktop replacement due to many reasons (mainly due to - not quite unexpected - non-working software I could not
replace or run in an emulator/VM or that uses proprietary x86 blobs/binaries/firmware).
A quite comprehensive overview over working software was published by the maintainer of void linux
so you could check this against your software requirements:
https://repo.voidlinux-ppc.org/stats.html
Note that this list may be old since the maintainer of void linux has started a new distro called "Chimera Linux":
https://voidlinux-ppc.org/news/2022/09/repo-update.html
https://chimera-linux.org/
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