Efika 5200B Project Port CRUX PPC in category Operating Systems proposed by acrux on 19th October 2006 (accepted on 20th October 2006)

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	CRUX PPC 2.6 released! posted by acrux on 19th January 2010 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/ [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC 2.6RC2 is now available posted by acrux on 17th December 2009 CRUX PPC 2.6 32bit and 64bit includes glibc 2.11, gcc 4.4.2 and binutils 2.20 [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC 2.5 released! posted by acrux on 4th June 2009 CRUX PPC 2.5 released! CRUX PPC 2.5 is now available. Supports Apple 32bit "NewWorld" G3/G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP32 (604e), YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER, and IBM pSeries RS64/POWERn. CRUX PPC 2.5 is released as 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. To increase CRUX PPC usability on pSeries, starting from 2.5 we do provide ports for some IBM utils. See the download page! http://www.cruxppc.org/ [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC Project current status posted by acrux on 31st March 2009 Our own new server obtained housing from “Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica” of the University “Federico II” of Naples, Italy and at the moment we are only waiting for a public IP. This server will host all CRUX PPC services and cruxcial developmnet and documentation tools. Here they will find a safe home new tools for intelligent automated multiarch testing, ports/packages management and web based project scheduling and management tool. We obtained full housing from University “Parthenope” of Naples for our 64bit PowerPC workstation (that IBM Linux Technology Center provided us) to achieve a better team cooperation over time. At the moment our 64bit PowerPC workstation is broken and we are waiting to resolve any warrantable issues because we must return it to Fixstars USA in Colorado, USA. We hope to resolve in short period because we really need this nice pice of hardware. We recently bought with our own money a second hand IBM Intellistation 2-way POWER4+ workstation to go forward with our work. If You have unused 64bit Power Architecture workstations, please, consider donating them to CRUX PPC. Thanks! [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC 2.5rc2 is now available posted by acrux on 22nd February 2009 CRUX PPC 2.5rc2 32/64 bit multilib includes kernel-2.6.28.5, glibc 2.8, gcc 4.3.3 and binutils 2.19.1 . ftp://ftp.crux.it/cruxppc/test/crux-ppc-2.5rc2.iso ftp://ftp.crux.it/cruxppc/test/crux-ppc-2.5rc2.iso.md5 please stay tuned and give us a feedback on this forum topic. http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1001 --- GNU/Linux CRUX PPC Project - http://cruxppc.crux.it/ [Permalink]

	Again a Server breakdown posted by acrux on 19th February 2009 The following services are anew unavailable: CRUX PPC Devel website, project wiki and project git/repositories. We’ll fix it this week-end and in the next future we move to a different server. CRUX PPC 2.5rc2 is ready and available as soon as our server 'll return online. EFIKA 5200B bootkernel is now fixed with SCSI cdrom support too. If You have unused 64bit Power Architecture rack mountable machines, please, consider donating them to CRUX PPC. Thanks! [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC 2.5rc1 is on the way! posted by acrux on 6th February 2009 dear cruxers, CRUX PPC 2.5rc1 32/64 bit multilib includes kernel-2.6.28.3, glibc 2.8, gcc 4.3.2 and binutils 2.19 . here the first release candidate: http://crux.it/~cjg/crux-ppc-2.5rc1.iso http://crux.it/~cjg/crux-ppc-2.5rc1.iso.md5 please stay tuned and give us a feedback on this forum topic: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1001 greetz, Acrux btw, a first test release of CRUX SPARC64 2.4 is available here: http://crux.it/~acrux/crux-sparc64-2.4pre6.iso http://crux.it/~acrux/crux-sparc64-2.4pre6.iso.md5 -- CRUX PPC - http://cruxppc.crux.it/ [Permalink]

	ATA DMA support on EFIKA posted by acrux on 26th December 2008 a (working but not stable) test patch against linux-2.6.28: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=218 [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC 2.4 released! posted by acrux on 15th November 2008 the long waited CRUX PPC version 2.4 multilib is now available. Supports Apple 32bit 'NewWorld' G3, G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER 185 and IBM Chrp 32bit. The CRUX PPC Team -- CRUX PPC 2.4 - GNU/Linux on Power Architecture CRUX PPC - http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/ CRUX PPC Devel - http://cruxppc.crux.it/ [Permalink]

	CRUX PPC @ Linux Day 2008 - Naples, Italy posted by acrux on 25th October 2008 Efika kiosk powered by CRUX PPC more pictures here: http://www.nalug.net/Members/acrux/crux-ppc-linux-day-2008-naples-italy/ GNU/Linux CRUX PPC Project new website - http://cruxppc.crux.it/ [Permalink]