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Applications and Porting / Re: [GFX] Alternatives to Adobe suites

« on: Today at 11:26:00 am »

I tried it on my Mac laptop and it's missing a lot of functionality. Plus, there are various inconsistencies in the UI. It might be promising, but I find Krita a better substitute for now.

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Blackbird / Re: Blackbird not booting - most likely a BMC software problem

« on: Today at 11:24:51 am »

Does a serial cable work here, or no? It should have the same serial port as a T2.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 7.2

« on: Today at 11:23:31 am »

7.2.9 is finally booting properly on my Talos II. Whew.

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Blackbird / Re: Alternative processor for Blackbird

« on: September 22, 2026, 08:28:43 pm »

Some people have run parts with more cores in them. It appears to work with sufficient cooling, though obviously this is out of spec for the board.

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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« on: September 22, 2026, 08:27:38 pm »

Only one GPU installed. The issue was originally my SATA card, but the patch for that should be in this kernel, so I need to do more digging.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 7.2

« on: September 20, 2026, 12:30:11 pm »

7.2.5 isn't working on mine either. However, I also got bit by the issue with some SATA cards causing a kernel panic in earlier kernels, so I need to debug this further. I'm still booting 6.14 on a current Fedora userland, which is not ideal.

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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« on: September 20, 2026, 12:29:12 pm »

Excellent! I'm still having trouble with current kernels on my system and the particular cards I have, but once I get that figured out, I want to play with this more (it's Fedora, so it's 64K pages).

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General Hardware Discussion / Re: Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3

« on: September 02, 2026, 05:52:19 pm »

I got bit with the SATA driver problem on recent kernels which appears to be an issue with some of these cards not properly working as 64-bit. I'm going to try 7.2 this weekend which has a patch for the specific card I have in the T2. The Blackbird's onboard SATA seems to be fine.

But that card interests me because I'm trying to free up some slots and I find my current two NVMe-layout a little wasteful.

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User Zone / Re: fastppcx86 - an x86-64 userspace emulator for power8 and up.

« on: August 05, 2026, 04:59:06 pm »

Sure seems appropriate to me. I'll have to try it out.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: July 10, 2026, 01:09:17 pm »

tle has a fork of it with the JIT I wrote just before the deletion landed.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [GAMES] dosbox-staging -- one of the best choice for DOS gaming

« on: June 08, 2026, 10:42:55 am »

I doubt they will reconsider it, and I don't intend to contribute any further work upstream given the relative abruptness of the decision. That said, it's their project and their policies, of course.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Bootstrapping native Void Linux (ppc64le) on Talos II

« on: May 27, 2026, 09:56:34 am »

Still, good work.

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: May 14, 2026, 10:01:16 am »

Fun! (But requires Leopard.)

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Applications and Porting / Re: [DEV] JIT support for Firefox

« on: May 11, 2026, 05:22:50 pm »

I have a Quad G5, but it runs Tiger, and I am not likely to run Linux on it. Similarly, my POWER6 runs AIX.

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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Fedora 44 officially released!

« on: April 29, 2026, 03:29:09 pm »

Is DHCP working OK with your internal Ethernet ports? I can't figure out why it WON'T work in Fedora, it WILL work in Petitboot, and it DOES work if I connect a USB Ethernet adaptor and plug the network into that.

I can't really test this on the T2 because it has a static IP.