fedora 13

axet · #1 26th May 2010, 07:10 PM

is here any download link, option? how!?

leigh123linux · #2 26th May 2010, 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by axet

is here any download link, option? how!?

There are no PPC iso's for F13

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== Power PC Support ==

With Apple moving to Intel based machines and Sony PlayStation
dropping Linux support, Fedora PowerPC (PPC) usage has dropped
considerably. In Fedora 13, PPC is now a secondary architecture and
the Fedora release engineering team no longer manages PPC releases. If
you would like to participate in the PPC effort or any of the
secondary architecture teams, refer to:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures?F13an

axet · #3 26th May 2010, 07:20 PM

Do not drop users!! Just in one second! Make recommendation, what we should do? Where we should go? Which release? Which OS?

HELP US!

leigh123linux · #4 26th May 2010, 07:26 PM

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Originally Posted by axet

Do not drop users!! Just in one second! Make recommendation, what we should do? Where we should go? Which release? Which OS?

HELP US!

Google it.

MorphingDragon · #5 27th May 2010, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by axet

Do not drop users!! Just in one second! Make recommendation, what we should do? Where we should go? Which release? Which OS?

HELP US!

Yellow Dog Linux is THE PowerPC Distro.

You have to cut off and move forward eventually. PowerPC is a relatively dead system, only kept alive by consoles and extreme processing needs. I wouldn't be at all surprised if consoles ended up being ARM with SPEs or something... Mac OS got miles better when they dropped Mac OS Classic Architecture for the NeXT Based Mac OSX. On the opposite spectrum, you have Microsoft. Which are bogged down trying to keep backwards compatibility.

desertrat · #6 29th May 2010, 10:38 PM

Mac OS got better when it changed from the Classic (OS9) to OS-X.
It did not get necessarily better buy changing from PPC to Intel processors.

OS-X was built long before the switch.

And you really need to re-look at MicroSnot.

They do NOT try to be backward compatible with their own operating system.
That is why Vista was such a bust!

Not sure Windows 7 is any better seeing as it is really a renamed Vista. You can not use any program that is built for a revision more than 3 generations back on Windows.

forkbomb · #7 29th May 2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by axet

Do not drop users!! Just in one second! Make recommendation, what we should do? Where we should go? Which release? Which OS?

HELP US!

If I had a PPC machine I'd be running Gentoo. For those who don't want to compile everything, though, last time I checked Debian is still being distributed for a number of rare/discontinued/defunct processor architectures.

MorphingDragon · #8 30th May 2010, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by desertrat

Mac OS got better when it changed from the Classic (OS9) to OS-X.
It did not get necessarily better buy changing from PPC to Intel processors.

OS-X was built long before the switch.

And you really need to re-look at MicroSnot.

They do NOT try to be backward compatible with their own operating system.
That is why Vista was such a bust!

Not sure Windows 7 is any better seeing as it is really a renamed Vista. You can not use any program that is built for a revision more than 3 generations back on Windows.

You need to look at your own bias...

seriously.

desertrat · #9 30th May 2010, 01:40 AM

You talking about WinDoze, or MicroSnot?

If so you need to look around a little.

Only reason people keep using that BloatWare is because they are forced to.

MorphingDragon · #10 30th May 2010, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by desertrat

You talking about WinDoze, or MicroSnot?

If so you need to look around a little.

Only reason people keep using that BloatWare is because they are forced to.

I'm seriously going to stop now before you blow your fanboy floodgates are released.

K Thank Bai.

---

BTW, you need to re-read my original post.

forkbomb · #11 30th May 2010, 01:45 AM

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Originally Posted by desertrat

You talking about WinDoze, or MicroSnot?

If so you need to look around a little.

Only reason people keep using that BloatWare is because they are forced to.

Whatever the case may be, why the heck have you smuggled that baggage into this thread? This thread has nothing to do with "MicroSnot" or "WinDoze" or even about Apple. axet just asked what the deal is with regard to Fedora for the PPC.

And it sounds like Fedora is another in the line of distros dropping PPC support.

MorphingDragon · #12 30th May 2010, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by forkbomb

Whatever the case may be, why the heck have you smuggled that baggage into this thread? This thread has nothing to do with "MicroSnot" or "WinDoze" or even about Apple. axet just asked what the deal is with regard to Fedora for the PPC.

And it sounds like Fedora is another in the line of distros dropping PPC support.

I thought that Fedora 8 was the best Fedora version for PPC anyway?

#13 30th May 2010, 01:49 AM

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Originally Posted by desertrat

You talking about WinDoze, or MicroSnot?

If so you need to look around a little.

Only reason people keep using that BloatWare is because they are forced to.

one could say Fedora is full of bloatware to

to the OP

look at www.distrowatch.com for other Linux OS's that have PPC support

MorphingDragon · #14 30th May 2010, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by dexta

one could say Fedora is full of bloatware to

Yea....

Like Firefox.

godel99 · #15 31st May 2010, 02:01 AM

Sadly, Fedora has dropped support for PowerPC hardware. I use Fedora on my Intel desktop and like it a lot, but was able to successfully install Debian 5.04 for PPC, the current stable version, on my G4 ibook with 512 megs of RAM using the first installation PPC CD and a cable internet connection. I just went with the defaults, and soon had a Gnome desktop and sound working right out of the box. The Debian installer is much easier to use than people make out, but it is a good idea to read the instructions carefully. The only tricky part was the wireless. See below.

http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/...powerpc/bt-cd/

To get the wireless working if that is an issue for you, you probably have the BCM4318 chipset and need some firmware.

After you have installed Debian and have everything working except for the wireless, become root and:

# lspci | grep Broadcom

This will tell you whether you have this quite common chipset. Then you need to check what kernel you are running:
# uname -a

Then, using the numbers, do something like

# apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26-2-powerpc
# apt-get install build-essential

Once that's done, you need to tinker with the file /etc/apt/sources.list

This can either be done with an editor like emacs or, if I remember, there is a utility on the Gnome desktop. Either way, you need to add 'contrib' to the end of lines where the word 'mirror' occurs. Before you do this, the last terms will be something like "lenny main"

Once all that is done,
apt-get install b43-fwcutter

Your software should now be able to talk to the wireless card.

I should warn you that Adobe Flash does not support PPC hardware in Linux, so if you want Flash the best thing currently available is Gnash, which can play older Adlobe Flash media. If you are tired of apt-get, there is a GUI interface in Gnome to add software.