Author: dams

Gentoo booth at LSM

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This week from Tuesday (tomorrow) until Saturday, the 7th edition of the Libre Software Meeting will be held in Nancy, France. This is going to be a great event, with sun, friends and beers. Oh and OSS/Free software of course 🙂

If you go there, make sure to stop by the gentoo booth, set up by Kernelsense, maxtoo and myself. We’ll sell x86 livecds away, and burn other gentoo isos on-demand.

altivec, here I come !

I just started learning altivec. It’s quite easy, actually easier than I expected, I can only recommend you to try.

What you need :

  • a ppc with altivec enabled. any G4 or G5 based machine will do. I use the pegasos Freescale donated me in sept 2004, a nifty machine
  • a linux distro, with altivec enabled gcc. Hm, what about gentoo linux ? 🙂
  • documentation about altivec. In short, you’ll need a “altivec for newbie” tutorial. It’s not trivial to find those documentation, see below
  • some very basic knowledge in C, an editor, gcc

And voil