Re: Book club or porting


Subject: Re: Book club or porting
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:57:29 MST


Jeff Tillwick's bits of Thu, 2 Mar 2000 translated to:

>on 3/2/2000 12:24 AM, Jim Cole at greyleaf@yggdrasill.net wrote:
>
>> Jeff Tillwick's bits of Wed, 1 Mar 2000 translated to:
>>
>>> Plus, i wondered if you guys or if anyone else out there is gonna spend the
>>> time to officially port x86 linux programs to PPC?
>>
>> It really depends on what programs you are referring to. Many have already
>> been officially ported and are included in the distributions. Many others
>> compile and run just fine without any porting. I am certain that just about
>> anything that doesn't fall into one of those categories will eventually be
>> ported if people have a need for it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>how about a PPC Linux hotline client like GHX3

Might want to try a search on hotline at Freshmeat (www.freshmeat.net).
There appear to be a number of clones currently available; think someone
mentioned fidelio on this list a while back.

Jim



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