{"id":260,"date":"2005-01-08T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T12:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=260"},"modified":"2005-01-08T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T12:40:26","slug":"fc3ppc-review-at-ppcnerds-specifixppc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/08\/fc3ppc-review-at-ppcnerds-specifixppc","title":{"rendered":"FC3\/ppc review at ppcnerds; specifix\/ppc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seems the FC-3\/ppc test tree<\/a> got a little review<\/a> at ppcnerds<\/a>. Just a few minor\/quick comments.<\/p>\n

You can extract boot.iso from the CD1 – just loop mount it. Installation is best done via NFS, as the guide<\/a> tells you to. Otherwise, its a case of paperclip eject and if you don’t have that, you’re kinda not getting anywhere without NFS (or http, or ftp).<\/p>\n

If the reviewer did see yum dependency problems, that we didn’t satisfy out of Core, it’d be great if he could file a bug. Also, with regards to nicer, newer kernels with patches that aren’t in mainline, but are benh generated, dwmw2 has been keeping a repository at ftp:\/\/ftp.linux.org.uk\/pub\/people\/dwmw2\/fc3-kernel-ppc\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That said, I updated the Fedora Core on your Macintosh (Fedora PPC)<\/a> guide today as well, to include that newer information. Also for fun, for easy drop in to \/etc\/yum.repos.d\/<\/tt> is fc3ppc.repo<\/a> which has all the necessary repos you can use (for a nice stable FC-3 system that is). I especially like:<\/p>\n

“There are now two Fedora ports for PPC out there: this official FC3 port in test stage and Yellowdog Linux, which is Fedora-based and in sync with Core 2. What’s the difference between the two? What will be the difference? For now all I can see is that, as expected, Yellowdog is fine-tuned on some hardware recognition there where Fedora still fails. But, being the Fedora port in a test stage, there is much room for improvement and soon we could see a stable release that will fix all of the small problem one meets now.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, there’s now Planet Conary<\/a>, and finally, I think, Specifix Linux might be PPC compliant in due time (sure, Anaconda needs fixing first…). A bootstrap system is in the near future, I’m guessing. Conary ran fine on FC-2\/ppc, and it did so in FC-3\/ppc as well. You need sqlite3, iirc, I don’t think I used fedora.us packages then though. This was 0.10.6 though – 0.12.4 is out…<\/p>\n

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