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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: PowerPC Hardware
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Jason Self |
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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: PowerPC Hardware |
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Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:21:06 -0700 (PDT) |
Tekk <address@hidden> wrote ..
> aside from this we have the fact that it'll be outdated pretty quickly.
> I haven't heard anything about ppc since the early-mid 00's
PowerPC is still very much alive, although perhaps not so much on desktop
computers [1].
After speaking with people I decided that, in the end, it was better to focus
on companies that value freeom, like Lemote, and not to push forward with a
PowerPC version of gNS.
[1] http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/09/ibms-8-core-power7-twice-the-
muscle-half-the-transistors.ars