Tumbleweed ppc64 big endian.

Hi All,

We are using openSUSE PowerPC on our AmigaOnes.

Links:

- http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3446
- http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=3810
- http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=3013
- http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2404
- http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1996
- http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=3784
- http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=1985

Downloads: 
http://www.supertuxkart-amiga.de/amiga/kernel_distros_opensuse.html

Further Linux-PPC screenshots: 
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115515624056477014971

Many thanks for openSUSE PowerPC! :-)

Cheers,
Christian


On 21 December 2017 at 3:19PM, Fadi Osman wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm representing a group of people interested in keeping a ppc64 big endian linux distribution alive:
> https://www.powerprogress.org/
> https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/
>
> No, we're not crazy, we're serious!
>
> There are about a dozen of us in the software group (from almost everywhere in the world) ready to help in testing, debugging etc... We're beginners, but we're willing to learn (and we have a bunch of G5 iMacs and PowerMacs)!
>
> After meeting some OpenSUSE people in France (Alionet), I decided on trying out Tumbleweed ppc64 (be).
>
> So I have installed it last week on an iMac G5, and ... it is great! Really! Thanks a lot for your efforts in keeping it alive and well!
>
> I got some driver issues during installation using the net iso - I had to download the full iso :-(, but besides one or two things, installation was fine.
> (I'll do the installation again and take note of the errors I got).
>
> I'm beginning to look at OBS and factory and studio - but I'm really just beginning.
> (I'm not sure if susestudio works for ppc64...)
>
> My first "mission" is to use OBS to build a libreoffice package (I couldn't find the ppc64 binaries in any repository).
>
> Thanks again for all your work, and I hope the powerpc mailing list will get more activity :-)
>
> Bye,
> Fadi OSMAN.


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