Gentoo LiveCD for PowerPC G5 · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @11:11AM from the industrial-strength dept.

tantive writes with this announcement from the Gentoo home page. "Gentoo for PowerPC G5 now available. We're proud to announce the availability of the Gentoo for PowerPC G5 32-bit LiveCD. ISOs are now available on our main OSU mirror. The LiveCD has been tested on a dual 2GHz G5 SMP PowerPC machine with 2.5GB RAM, a 1.6GHz machine, as well as others. It includes pre-released yaboot-1.3.11 bootloader and a 2.6.0-test9 benh kernel. It runs at 100% speed, with fans currently also at 100% (kernel developers are working on slowing down the fans when not needed)." Read more below.

The announcement continues "Installation is possible on the SATA drives. We are now hard at work to create optimized stages, and the store will carry G5 LiveCDs when stage building is finished. Right now you can bootstrap your own G5-optimized system, or use a generic ppc stage3 install with GRP to install Gentoo in 20 minutes. We would like to thank benh (PPC kernel developer) for his excellent work in supporting the G5, as well as all users who tested the ISO, and particularly IBM System Software researcher Eric Van Hensbergen, who provided fantastic test/debug help during the LiveCD development process."

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Re:Ahh fan speed by skinfitz · 2003-11-12 06:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Who modded this up? Only 9 fans in my G5. The smells like a troll. Nothing like a personal anecdote to support one's opinion.

More importantly, who modded this up? Nothing like a comment from an Anonymous COWARD.