Subject: Re: Book club or porting
From: Stew Benedict (stewb@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 13:02:02 MST
Sorry,
Guess I had a burr up my ars this morning. If it's proprietary, then my
course of action has been to ask the author(s) or company, nicely, if they
would consider porting to Linux PPC. Offer to sign a non-disclosure and
beta test for them if they don't have the hardware, and they are nervous
about disclosing their source. (Like someone won't hack a work around
anyway!) As you say, I think we're all busy porting what we want to PPC,
and those with the know-how are trying to make RPM's available for the
rest. I still stand by my last statement though, learn and contribute!
Stew
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Jim Cole wrote:
> Hmmm? I don't disagree with you on the spoiled part ;) Been using Linux
> since the days when even building and installing "ported" software often
> required a couple hours of tweaking and coercing. But the package in question
> is proprietary and can't just be built from a tar ball. Clones developed by
> others in the community are the only real option. And I think the general
> question was simply one of whether people are going to be actively working
> to increase the number of tools available for PPC Linux users. The answer
> to that, IMHO, is a definitive yes.
>
> Jim
>
> Stew Benedict's bits of Fri, 3 Mar 2000 translated to:
>
> >
> >You guys that have come after RPM's are spoiled. Grab the source, compile
> >and install. Hit a snag? Try to work it out, write the author, or ask on
> >the mail lists and/or news groups. If you get it working, learn how to
> >create an RPM and make a contribution to the community, upload it to a
> >contrib site. 9say imaclinux for instance ;^).
> >
> >Stew Benedict
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jeff Tillwick wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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