DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: DSL on my palm?



Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ Jan. 24 2005,13:43)
[quote=apple,Jan. 24 2005,08:17]The only port that /might/ happen is to the ppc architecture, but only if someone acquires a mac, and takes the time to completely rebuild DSL from the ground up. Knoppix could not be used as a base.

Most likely, official ports ain't gonna happen. Much less any time soon.

What language is DSL written in?  If it is C or something close to it then Xcode could theoretically build it for PPC and even PPC(64).

It would take some work for the lower-level stuff to be ported... but if most of DSL is a high-level language then its good.  Of course, time is money...

Anyone with too much time on their hands as well as a Mac out there? :p
Quote (Mechcozmo @ Jan. 31 2005,06:47)
... Xcode could theoretically build it for PPC and even PPC(64).

It would take some work for the lower-level stuff to be ported... but if most of DSL is a high-level language then its good.  Of course, time is money...

Anyone with too much time on their hands as well as a Mac out there? :p

Well, I have access to a computer lab at my university that is being retired. It has 50 PowerMac 7500/100s. These are old-world PPC Macs with early OpenFirmware. A DSL port is EXACTLY what these machines need. As it is now, they are running KanjiTalk 7.5.5 and the school is planning to toss them. THey have 80Mb RAM and 1 Gb HDDs.

I don't have the know-how to do the port, but I know that there is a Debian port for PPC that supposedly works with these machines. So, yeah, I bet there are a bunch of older Macs out there that COULD be part of the DSL family.
Nearly right.  The configuration are generally the same, with the architecture-specific stuff redone.  Scripts would also have to be rewritten, especially those involving /dev/hd?? (on macs, this designation is different sometimes, occasionally neither IDE or SCSI...  Which irritates me, but reading up on how Debian PPC is built is helping)

By the way, my DSL-PPC is about 10% done.  I have a kernel.  It makes my Mac Mini smile.
Quote (Fordi @ Jan. 31 2005,11:58)
Nearly right.  The configuration are generally the same, with the architecture-specific stuff redone.  Scripts would also have to be rewritten, especially those involving /dev/hd?? (on macs, this designation is different sometimes, occasionally neither IDE or SCSI...  Which irritates me, but reading up on how Debian PPC is built is helping)

By the way, my DSL-PPC is about 10% done.  I have a kernel.  It makes my Mac Mini smile.

You go boy!!!

Brian
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Quote (Fordi @ Jan. 31 2005,10:58)
By the way, my DSL-PPC is about 10% done.  I have a kernel.  It makes my Mac Mini smile.

Fordi - this would be fantastic. I have quite a few old macs that have been donated to me and I also have some ppc thin clients according to caulktel. This would be very welcome if you can pull it off!

Chris
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