CRUX PPC

CRUX PPC GNU/Linux Project

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.

Sticky News

Latest stable release: CRUX PPC 2.5a

We need donors supporting us with 64bit Power Architecture^® machines.

News

• CRUX PPC 2.5a, bugfix release
  Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200
  CRUX PPC 2.5a is available. We fixed scsi_proc_fs and z85c30 serial support for apple32 and apple64 bootkernels.
  

• CRUX PPC Project got Power Source Logo
  Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0200
  The CRUX PPC Project has been considered eligible to adopt and use Power Source Logo from Power.org.
  Power Source Logo identifies complementary products specifically designed for use with or usable with and services rendered in developing, building or maintaining cores, processors, and hardware and computer systems of any type that include and are 100% compatible with the core Power Architecture technology, specifically the standard instruction set architecture represented by the Power ISA or PowerPC ISA specifications. Products may include software, tools, and test equipment as examples. Services may include manufacturing and programming, as examples.
  May be used on collateral such as product or service brochures, fact sheets, user manuals and presentations; product packaging; and on websites related to qualified products or services.
  

• CRUX PPC 2.5 released!
  Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0200
  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 CHRP (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!
  

• Making ilenia update local repositories
  Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 +0200
  It's time to add a new feature to ilenia maintenance tool. When updating a local repository, ilenia looks for a shell script in the repository root called ".updater.sh", if that file exists ilenia run it in the repository root.