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LinuxPPC64 Contest
Robert MacFarlan writes: "IBM is sponsoring a Open Source developer contest for their Linux on POWER (Linux PPC 64)
effort. The contest is designed to award and showcase innovative
new open source applications that are designed or optimized specifically
for Linux running on the PPC architecture. The contest also awards ports
of existing applications from a predetermined list. Contest prizes
include Segway HTs, Apple Power Mac G5s, and cash awards.
"
They realized it was a dupe and decided to do away with it...executioner style...*cough*
If you look at the topic list, it's in 'Hardware (Apple)', so it's in Apple.
Guy asked me for a quarter for a cup of coffee. So I bit him.
Perhaps because it would have been a dupe? :-)
For a change the mysterious future worked!
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
But it isn't Apple hardware! It's all IBM. It's not even PPC, it's POWER, which Apple doesn't use.
The Darwine project has winelib running on OS X, and aims to tie QEMU to WINE to allow windows apps to run with the binaries in the emulated environments and the wine calls running on the native platform.
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POWER is an acronym. "Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC", IIRC.
;)
Now go shout at the eejits who shout "MAC" when referring to cute plastic from Apple, Inc.
Help savingAmigaOS and a free PowerPC market
Read the article. Entries due by June 2005.. Registration Now..
Who is moding around here...???
What page are you reading??? This contest is designed for Open Source Developers world-wide (w/ the exception of Quebec Canada). Please see the official rules.
This post patent pending.
Straight out of the FAQ:
Just like game show winnings, the prizes are considered taxable income.
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
RTFA: "Linux running on the PPC architecture". I bet most people running Linux on PPC or POWER run it on Apple hardware.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
"While some companies permit Quebec entrants, many are scared away by unique rules that are mandated by the province's gaming agency.
Quebec is the lone Canadian jurisdiction that requires security deposits, charges fees and enforces strict rules about draws valued at more than $100. Some American states also enforce rules that prevent their residents from participating in contests.
In addition to requiring that all documents be written in French, Quebec's agency charges three per cent of the value of all national prizes, even if a Quebecer doesn't claim a prize, or 10 per cent of the value of a contest run exclusively in the province. The agency collected nearly $1.7 million in fees last year.
In the rest of Canada, large contests are governed only by the federal Competition Act, a broad framework for promotional contests.
"People often exclude Quebec just because they're afraid of these rules and don't really understand them," said Sharon Groom, a Toronto lawyer who represents many advertisers that run contests as a marketing tool.
"They're not actually that bad but a lot of our clients will say we don't want to be bothered with doing this, so they exclude Quebec."
In case somebody wonders about the Apple comments: this appeared in the Apple section yesterday (with an Apple G4 icon IIRC), but was moved to developers.slashdot.org. Which clears up another confusion: this is not a dupe.
Lars T.
To the guy who modded me down from perfect to terrible Karma - Apple haters still suck
The Pegasos board runs Linux/ppc and MorphOS (an Amiga-like OS it seems) and others, although they don't seem to provide ppc970/G5s just yet. My bet it they would sell pretty well though..
http://www.pegasosppc.com/
Sorry, a post higher up noted that IBM was recommending people go through University of Portland for access to a Power based development lab. If I were less tired I would have replied to the post noting that. :)
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Though I don't pretend to understand what Apple thinks they are gaining by holding back things like full specs on the airport extreme card in my notebook
They probably aren't allowed to do so by their agreement with Broadcom, the chip's manufacturer. I think you'll find that Broadcom hasn't released open information on any of their products, so their refusal to allow Apple to do so is in keeping with that position.
So the question becomes: why doesn't Broadcom release info to allow Linux users to use their gear? Who knows. Or, why does Apple choose a manufacturer that refuses to play with OSS? That's probably due to a) historical reasons--the stuff is working now, so it's have to be re-engineered using a different source, and b) there's not enough interest for Linux-on-Apple to warrant the change.
But the bottomline is that if Broadcom released their info, Apple would be more likely to follow their lead.
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G4 != G5
AFAIK, there are some of the G$ altivec instructions which will crash on the G5, which is why some OSX apps had to be ported. Plus, they want it for the POWER PPC64 architecture anyway, so no.
The Airport specs aren't being withheld by Apple, it's a Broadcom chipset which is proprietary.
There's a petition for Broadcom to release opensource drivers on PetitionOnline.com.
-Glitch "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." - Linus Torvalds
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/har dware/710_browse.html
Is cheaper for the entry config which is significantly beefier than the entry 720. Also keep in mind that there are even cheaper configs possible if you buy through a human salesperson at IBM or a dealer. Supposed entry price for these machines (I haven't seen the details but I assume it's like the entry 720, (only 512MB RAM, 1.5Ghz CPU and smaller disks) is US$3,000.
That may be kinda difficult since the front page says:
Registration begins on March 15, 2005!
Entries are due by July 15, 2005!
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
The correct URL for the OpenPower line is:
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/
Click Here
;) you do know thez have been avaliable for a couple years nowc hStr= &SearchCat=AMA1>
url:http://www.eyetech.co.uk/search.php?Sear
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Broadcom hasn't released open information on any of their products.
not true. not only have they released information on their gigabit ethernet chips, they also contributed drivers to the kernel.
their wireless stuff is another story, iirc broadcom is under NDA due to some of the technology and core logic they licensed from others.