CRUX PPC 2.6 is now available. CRUX PPC is a port of CRUX for the Power Architecture® platform. It’s a GNU system with a Linux kernel and runs on Apple NewWorld (both 32 and 64bit) PowerPC, YDL Powerstation, Genesi PegasosII and EFIKA, ACube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP and pSeries servers. CRUX PPC includes support for laptop-specific features, extended hardware support and server tools.

CRUX PPC is a volunteer driven no-profit project based on the releases of CRUX for x86. It contains software written by a lot of different people, each software comes with its own license, chosen by its author. Parts written by CRUX PPC Team are to intend as free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Unlike other distributions, the primary goal of CRUX is not to be the most popular (read: biggest number of users) or to put as many features as possible into the system. The idea is rather to build a streamlined distribution, targetted at a specific audience which in turn gets a system without compromises. The result may not be the best distribution for everybody, but as mentioned above, that’s not the goal. If you’re part of the target audience however, you might enjoy running CRUX just as much as we do.

CRUX PPC 2.6 is, as usual, released via two different installation ISO: 32bit and 64bit. The 32bit version is based on a single lib toolchain instead the 64bit one comes with a multilib toolchain. These two versions share the same ports tree.
See the download page!

CRUX PPC GNU/Linux Project - http://cruxppc.org/

congrats, acrux & team, on behalf of the new official release! keep on rocking!

currently is available a new IcedTead6 (with a working ppc/ppc64 firefox-3.6 java plugin).

Pegasos2 users are, already, able to have a working DRI enabling Q-Master's patch in ppc/opt/libdrm port.

Are now available two archives with the full CRUX PPC toolchain (current snapshot: 06 June 2010) already compiled in a clean environment and ready to be used for a quick update.



Low end machines owners can update their own systems using these provided packages saving precious time and computational costs.


download for CRUX PPC:
ftp:/ /ftp.cruxppc.org/cruxppc/distfiles/2.6/tc26-20100604-ppc32.tar.xz
ftp:/ /ftp.cruxppc.org/cruxppc/distfiles/2.6/tc26-20100604-ppc32.tar.xz.md5
download for CRUX PPC (64bit):
ftp:/ /ftp.cruxppc.org/cruxppc/distfiles/2.6/tc26-20100604-ppc64.tar.xz
ftp:/ /ftp.cruxppc.org/cruxppc/distfiles/2.6/tc26-20100604-ppc64.tar.xz.md5

Nice work!
R&B :)