CRUX PPC
A lightweight GNU/Linux distribution for PowerPC!
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 non-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.
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200
CRUX PPC 2.6 ports and pre-compiled for the IcedTea Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) and OpenOffice suite are now updated. They are available for ppc and ppc64.
icedtea6-1.8 (openjdk6b18) --> icedtea6-1.8-946a062e9027 (openjdk6b20)
openoffice-3.1.1 --> openoffice-3.2.1
Low end machines owners can update their own systems using these provided bin-ppc* packages saving precious time and computational costs.
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0200
Are now available two archives with the full CRUX PPC toolchain (current snapshot: 06 June 2010) already compiled in a clean environment and ready to be used for a quick update.
Low end machines owners can update their own systems using these provided packages saving precious time and computational costs.
Please stay tuned and give us a feedback on CRUX PPC forum (Improvements).
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100
CRUX PPC 2.6 is now available. It works on 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 2.6 is, as usual, released via 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.
See the download page!
Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100
CRUX PPC 2.6RC2 32/64 bit includes glibc 2.11, gcc 4.4.2 and binutils 2.20 .
Please stay tuned and give us a feedback on CRUX PPC forum.
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