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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [DEV] Testing out Fedora 37

« on: August 22, 2022, 07:02:56 pm »

KDE Plasma is no doubt better. I am also using it on my Lenovo thinkpad X1 laptop.

What's with the compiler issue just curious

I'm having trouble even with 5.18.18 (SATA devices not showing up). I'm still on 5.18.13 so my optical drives work.

Good to hear about GNOME, but I've mostly gotten KDE Plasma working the way I want it on F36 and it's a lot snappier.

Right now my showstopper is compiler issues.

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Applications and Porting / [GAMES] Ultimate Doom with all enhancements on crispy-doom client

« on: August 22, 2022, 06:59:44 pm »

There are countless of Doom1 clients on the net but only one that really strike the balance between the classic gameplay and modern QoL is the crispy-doom.

Crispy doom is based on Chocolate Doom with enhancments:

* Large screen resolution with different ratio aspect
* Jump / Free look mouse movement (just like modern FPS)
* Lots and lots of QoL options

The client can be compiled successfully for ppc64le without additional changes.

FYI The Ultimate DOOM Wad could be found on archive.org

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Operating Systems and Porting / [GAMES] 3D Pinball Space Cadet

« on: August 22, 2022, 08:54:23 am »

The amazing pinball game was part of Windows XP. I used to spend hours playing this game and now I am re-living the moment with this SDL port for Linux

Source: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

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Operating Systems and Porting / [DEV] Testing out Fedora 37

« on: August 22, 2022, 08:26:37 am »

Fedora 37 looks very promising. The 5.19 kernel is still buggy at the time of this writing so I fallback to the 5.18.17 (of Fedora 36). The 5.19.3-300 runs perfectly fine now

My first impression is how MUCH MORE responsive mutter of GNOME 43 has become. The GNOME shell is quite snappy just like of the old days of GNOME 3.38.

Many apps have been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita and I expect more apps to follow in the GNOME 44.

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Rocky Linux 9.0 is out folks!

« on: July 14, 2022, 11:43:13 am »

Source: https://rockylinux.org/news/rocky-linux-9-0-ga-release/

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: July 11, 2022, 03:55:22 am »

Have we a wiki page for all games that are compatible with POWER9?

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Applications and Porting / Re: MAME for Power

« on: June 23, 2022, 08:41:18 pm »

Well TLE, so now finally Fedora can finally use MAME too, good news I would say. As you know by now I have switched to Debian, so I don't care much about what happens on Fedora anymore, but I am equally pleased that more software is coming. Unfortunately the main problem of MAME on Power is the poor general optimization, I noticed that several games that on the X86 version are very good, I am talking about old stuff above all, I am not talking about recent things for heaven's sake, but old stuff that unfortunately runs slow on Power and unplayable. Really a shame, it would be nice to know how to optimize the code and make better use of the available hardware, it would be really very nice!

That's expected. Lots of optimisation in many emulators are very architecture-specific. Everything needs time to build momentum, once PowerPC is more popular, those engineers behind MAME would be likely to further optimise it

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Applications and Porting / Re: MAME for Power

« on: June 21, 2022, 08:55:15 pm »

Good news. We've finally had the official MAME RPM packages in Fedora 36. This forum threads have finally get to the end

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Applications and Porting / [NEWS] Golang optimizes index function for ppc64le/power9

« on: May 29, 2022, 08:37:30 pm »

Archana Ravindar has done a great job with changes to internal/bytealg of golang. This change brings ~30% perf boost for the index function.


Source: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7ca1e2aa56f23b1766e8f5f65c431d18abd58985?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Applications and Porting / Re: Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium DNF Repository

« on: May 29, 2022, 08:34:55 pm »

Thanks MPC7500, I'll try to install them and then Chromium.

It's a while since my last update with this project. I was getting frustrated with the huge amount of work to get it going (plus I was a bit burned out at work too). So if you feel like to contribute to the project, please let me know. I am more than happy to guide people through the process to keep it supported a bit further.

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Red Hat Enterprise 9 is out

« on: May 21, 2022, 08:26:19 pm »

A conservative distro with focus on “enterprise” (or whatever that means). Notable changes:

- Kernel 5.14
- More up-to-date languages stack such as Ruby, Python, PHP
- GNOME 40 (yup very slow in term of mutter animation)

Don’t you know you could apply for individual developer license?

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] AlmaLinux 8.6 is out

« on: May 18, 2022, 12:17:53 am »

Whilst Rocky Linux has not yet announced any support for OpenPOWER, the Alma Linux continues to excel with support for ppc64le

URL: https://almalinux.org/blog/almalinux-86-stable-is-now-available/

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 36 is out!

« on: May 15, 2022, 06:30:23 pm »

I am not surprised with things get regressed. The ppc64le has never been the primary focus of the Fedora team. There was little tests conducted by the community when it was in beta. Well time to file some bug reports and send in some patches

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] NVIDIA open sources their driver (from Turin onward)

« on: May 11, 2022, 06:10:20 pm »

Source: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

This is BIG! Though the driver is not tested against ppc64be or ppc64le, nevertheless it is a positive move from the company that is well known for its unfriendly stance against OSS

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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Fedora 36 is out!

« on: May 11, 2022, 06:08:27 pm »

More details at https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-36-workstation/

Changes

* Kernel 5.17.x
* GNOME 42

It is an incremental upgrade from Fedora 35. The performance of Mutter is still horrible, I hope in GNOME 44 the team would optimise the animation further.