On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 09:25 +0200, Armin Luntzer wrote:

Help is always appreciated :)

There are currently 1037 Packages in ppc-extra, thats about 1000 less than in the official Arch extra-repo. ppc-current contains 510 packages, that makes a total of 1547 packages.

If us three had an equal number of packages to maintain (that's not the case), this would make ~516 packages per person, which is already too much. Considering the above, I'd say we'd need at least another four people to push the port forward. I hope that helped :)

Yep, it sounds like you could really use the help too. So I think when I get enough money this summer I'll get some kind of faster PowerPC than my slow little Gamecube.

greetings, -Armin

Am Samstag, den 28.04.2007, 23:19 -0500 schrieb Harley Laue:

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This summer I might invest in a piece of PowerPC hardware. After running Arch Linux on my Gamecube, I now want to perhaps take the next step and buy a more practical PowerPC computer (perhaps a used Mac Mini G4) with the sole purpose to try and help out with this port.

Which brings me to my question, I'd like to have a bit of an idea of what still needs to be done/maintained with Arch Linux PPC. I'd like to have at least an idea of what might be needed before I invest my time and money into a piece of hardware. If all that's needed is bug fixing, I'll be much less likely to consider buying the hardware if that's the case. _______________________________________________ arch-ports mailing list arch-ports@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-ports

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Harley Laue wrote:

get enough money this summer I'll get some kind of faster PowerPC than my slow little Gamecube.

I would like to enable my gamecube to run Linux as well but it seems I cannot come up with a broadband adaptor. Any recommendations where to get one? Cheers, -I

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:35 +0200, Alexander Baldeck wrote:

Harley Laue wrote:

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get enough money this summer I'll get some kind of faster PowerPC than my slow little Gamecube.

I would like to enable my gamecube to run Linux as well but it seems I cannot come up with a broadband adaptor. Any recommendations where to get one?

Cheers,

If your local game stores don't have one, you might be stuck with on online store/auction (like Dale Blount said http://store.nintendo.com will be a sure way to find one.) I was lucky enough to be able to go to a GameStop and just pick one up. You should be aware that the Gamecube isn't exactly a real practical system to run a full distro like Arch on. I really did it as an experiment to see if a distro would run on it. The lack of Ram is a very limiting factor for running much of an OS on the Gamecube. It can be fun and a way to expriment if you don't have many computers networked together. For instance, I ran XFCE over ssh tunneling for the first time on my 'cube. It was the first non-ix86 kernel I built and booted. Now that I think about it, I've had lots of firsts with running Linux on my 'cube. It's definately worthwhile if you like to play with and expirement with what Linux can do. Once you get a bba for your 'cube and can boot homebrew code (which includes Linux) you may want to check out the tutrials on www.gc-linux.org on how to set up a cross compiler and distcc. You'll need the cross compiler to build the kernel,and distcc is a must if you plan on compiling anything on your 'cube. While compiling a reasonably sized C++ program, the 'cube will become very unresponsive. I just thought this would be worth mentioning, and hope this helps.