{"id":4,"date":"2006-12-24T22:55:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-11-27T17:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T17:00:40","slug":"gentoo_ppc64_ps3_livecd_is_in_beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/2006\/12\/24\/gentoo_ppc64_ps3_livecd_is_in_beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Gentoo PPC64 PS3 LiveCD is in BETA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that a BETA LiveCD for PS3s and PowerMacs is making it&#8217;s way onto the Gentoo mirrors as I write this.  The LiveCD can be found on the mirrors in the ppc64 experimental section.  You can check out a screenshot from the LiveCD at: <\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/proj\/en\/base\/ppc64\/ps3\/beta.jpg<\/p>\n<p>The LiveCD works on PS3s and G5 Apple PowerMacs.  It contains a full Gnome desktop as well as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefox-2x (Bon Echo)<\/li>\n<li>Audacious<\/li>\n<li>Xchat<\/li>\n<li>Gaim<\/li>\n<li>Evolution<\/li>\n<li>Gimp-2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among other things, we plan to add Thunderbird in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to download and test the LiveCD; however, <u>do not, under any circumstances, report bugs via Gentoo&#8217;s official bugzilla mechanism<\/u>.  I&#8217;d prefer join us on #gentoo-ppc64 to report feedback.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note to PS3 Users<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The LiveCD contains a kboot.conf file which should allow you to boot the LiveCD.  Choose the label that most closely matches your TV&#8217;s resolution.  This is an area where we plan to put some future enhancements.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sound<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Sound should be functional on the LiveCD.  You need to unmute the master channel with the alsa-mixer application.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank each of the following for their participation in the LiveCD creation: lu_zero, mtb, nickthecook, deadfall, wolf3l02, and mmschnei.  Sorry if I missed anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas,<\/p>\n<p>Ranger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that a BETA LiveCD for PS3s and PowerMacs is making it&#8217;s way onto the Gentoo mirrors as I write this. The LiveCD can be found on the mirrors in the ppc64 experimental section. You can check out a screenshot from the LiveCD at: http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/proj\/en\/base\/ppc64\/ps3\/beta.jpg The LiveCD works on PS3s and G5 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/2006\/12\/24\/gentoo_ppc64_ps3_livecd_is_in_beta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gentoo PPC64 PS3 LiveCD is in BETA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/ranger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}