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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Could Intel DG2 the missing piece of the puzzle for ppc64le workstation?

« on: August 28, 2022, 11:08:45 am »

Unfortunately, as expected, the performance of the card is laughable like any other Intel GPU. The only interesting thing is the price.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-a380-linux

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 28, 2022, 11:01:00 am »

To be honest, I wouldn't choose Debian either. Debian is in my view the best equipped distribution in terms of OpenPOWER hardware. Secondly, when I look at the PowerPC mailing list, it's all about big-endian. Requests or bug reports regarding PPC64le remain unanswered. If I were to give the Blackbird to a Debian maintainer, it would be John Paul Adrian Glaubitz.

The NetBSD guy is suspicious to me.

Your second option "OzLabs member" sounds the most interesting to me.

But hey, in the end it's your decision.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: any user experiences with openSUSE leap?

« on: August 22, 2022, 10:54:31 am »

Time ago I tried 15.1. It works fine. 15.4 should work, too.
Here is an overview: https://wiki.raptorcs.com/wiki/Operating_System_Compatibility_List

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 19, 2022, 11:35:11 am »

A dashboard or wiki page would be good. We only have a page about operating systems and about porting status, but nothing about libraries or what is missing at all.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 19, 2022, 10:52:12 am »

I see. Thanks for the input. Zoë Knox sadly is located in Canada. But probonopd is also connected to ravynOS in some way.
There was also a guy who tried to compile Haiku on PPC64le, but also failed.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 19, 2022, 09:15:13 am »

Another possibility helloSystem. probonopd is located in Germany ;-)
https://github.com/helloSystem/hello

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 19, 2022, 08:03:58 am »

Haiku only because of lack of hardware. They don't even have Macintosh PowerPCs.

But still there are some activities:

Kallisti5 fixed some minor problems with the PowerPC port to keep it building and simplify it a bit. Kallisti5 and waddlesplash also continued cleaning up the RISC-V sources and fixing various minor issues there.

I would ask Kallisti5 and waddlesplash if they're interested in hardware.
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-powerpc-compatibility/1869/59

Edit: At least these two developers located in the US ...
Edit 2: Discussion on Twitter.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 19, 2022, 05:23:27 am »

Haiku would be a good candidate
https://www.haiku-os.org

Or NetBSD.

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 19, 2022, 05:07:41 am »

The Debian folks are probably the least likely group of people to need any additional POWER hardware. Since they are already sufficiently supplied with POWER hardware.

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User Zone / Re: Void Linux thread

« on: August 16, 2022, 02:57:34 pm »

Dumb question? Good question. I have no idea, I don't use xfce. since it's not a PowerPC specific problem you could ask the void or xfce community, if you don't get an answer here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/

I do the same, because most of my topics aren't PowerPC specific.

I googled, maybe this helps?
https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/change-the-screensaver-on-xfce/

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User Zone / Re: Rough edges and how I work around them (or not)

« on: August 15, 2022, 05:54:58 am »

I never had any issues

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 13, 2022, 07:53:48 am »

Another one is FreeCS
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeCS-Open-Counter-Strike
https://github.com/eukara/FreeCS

There is also AssaultCube Reloaded
https://acr.victorz.ca/

And Urban Terror
https://www.urbanterror.info/home/

Dunno if it's comparable to CSGO

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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Request for proposals: Who to donate my Blackbird and Power 9 CPU?

« on: August 13, 2022, 07:37:55 am »

Another possibility is kernel.cafe. Don't know if it still exists. I will see.
https://twitter.com/thomrstrom/status/1361454356533415937

Edit: Here is already a thread about it
https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,263.msg1979.html

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User Zone / Re: Calling for gaming experiences

« on: August 12, 2022, 05:54:37 pm »

I can’t speak to the state of CS: GO’s source leak, but a friend of mine worked at Valve for years and was very familiar with the Source engine.

You'll find some CSGO repos on GitHub like Kisak-Strike

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General Discussion / Re: HighPoint SSD7505 RAID tools for ppc?

« on: August 12, 2022, 05:43:42 pm »

You could try a Riser Cable, like this
https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/cases/accessories/universal-vertical-gpu-holder-kit-v2-pcie-40/