[IAEP] PowerPC SoaS

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:06:07PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>By the way he says the Fedora PPC version should be able to boot
>PowerPC (pre-Intel) Macs, and doesn't see why Sugar couldn't run on
>top of that. Am I missing something?

Don't know if you are missing it or not, but a PowerPC SoaS (i.e. Linux 
kernel + GNU/BSD/whatever userspace + X11 + Python + Sucrose, all 
compiled for PowerPC) will happily "update" its activities to newer 
Intel-compiled ones that will then fail.  Pure-Python Activities will 
work, but ones containing embedded libraries will fail.

Apart from that, I can't think of other obstacles at the moment.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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