Merry Christmas and a ppc64 New Year

I would first like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, peace on earth, etc. That said, there has been a resurgence of activity with Gentoo for PPC64. We have been actively working on a real livecd which boots into a full Gnome environment ala x86.

However the real motivation behind it is that this cd also supports PS3s. We currently have the CD in beta and have one last hurdle to clear, but as of now the cd works on PS3s as is. The only gotcha is the xorg configuration which can be done by hand. The cd includes firefox-2, gnome, and other things you’d expect including sound sound. You can use the CD for installs as well.

If you are interested in this project, check out the following:

  • http://ppc64.gentoo.org/
  • http://ppc64.gentoo.org/ps3/
  • http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/cell

We have also built up quite base of folks who are PS3 savy now as well. Drop by on IRC on #gentoo-ppc64 and visit.

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