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CRUX PPC Goes 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the new-number dept.

Jaime writes "The CRUX PPC port reached version 2.0 yesterday. The announcement has been done during the SND Forum in Frankfurt, Germany. This is a new nice piece of software that has a PPC port."

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  1. In case you were wondering... by byolinux · · Score: 2, Informative

    CRUX PPC is a lightweight GNU/Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is "keep it simple", which is reflected in a simple tarball-based package system, BSD-style init scripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages.

    Debian PPC still available folks. apt is the only way to fly when it comes to package management, I feel.

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    1. Re:In case you were wondering... by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 2, Insightful
      As a Crux user, I feel I must step in and defend this.

      Why can't we have a release without someone piping in with how Crux is inferior because it doesn't have something like portage or apt?

      Crux isn't for everyone. Besides, it does have ports+prt-get.

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    2. Re:In case you were wondering... by byolinux · · Score: 2, Insightful

      For me, I feel that effort would be better spent on something like Debian, rather than yet another distro... especially for something like PPC.

      If the goal is to provide a free software drop-in replacement for OS X, then as a community we should concentrate our efforts on one distro...

      I'll plead ignorance when it comes to Gentoo, but I don't like the idea of a lot of compiling - I'm sure there are ways to not have to compile everything, but then I think 'Why bother, when there is Debian'

      I'm not a Debian developer, but I like how apt works. It works consistently well, and is considerably better than something like Software Update or Windows Update.

      It's always cool to see people doing new stuff however, and the Crux people should be congratulated for this.

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  2. Damn. by Udo+Schmitz · · Score: 2, Funny
    CRUX PPC is a lightweight GNU/Linux distribution targeted at experienced Linux users. [...]

    I already had my plan carefully laid out on how to not RTFA and asking stupid questions about that CRUX thingie. Thanks for totally spoiling my evening ...

  3. Airport extreme by paz5 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I had good success setting up crux recently on my g4 ibook. Everything worked well and they way it was supposed to. Unfortunatly Airport extreme is still not supported, and from what i heard it will be a while untill it is. Hope someone with the skills to write drivers does...