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MacMiga
PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:29 pm 
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I fired my EFIKA 5200B (PPC) up today for the first time in forever (about 2.7 years according to my last login time in Ubuntu 7.10).

I wondered if there was any modern OS support for the platform? I would like to update it to a supported PPC Linux distribution.

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Take a look at crux ppc, works like a charm.
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CRUX PPC !!!
But you must remember it's a source based distro.

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I fired my EFIKA 5200B (PPC) up today for the first time in forever (about 2.7 years according to my last login time in Ubuntu 7.10).

I wondered if there was any modern OS support for the platform? I would like to update it to a supported PPC Linux distribution.
For the fun part: www.morphos.de
Release 2.6 is just about a few weeks old, 2.7 release expected within the next 4 weeks.
Of course no Linux. But that's no pro or con per se. Works like a charm on my Efika 5200B. You may have a look at it if you like alternatives.
If you got questions regarding MorphOS, visit www.morphzone.org
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I too would recommend MorphOS on such slow and limited
machine. The graphical Window manager will be extremely
slow - even if you use one of the low-spec GUI:s.

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Getting off topic, but what's going on with morphzone at the moment?
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Getting off topic, but what's going on with morphzone at the moment?
Why don't you ask that on MorphZone? :)

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This is one of the many areas where my knowledge of the internet putters out - I can get to morphzone through Tor but not without it...
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what's going on with morphzone at the moment?
A pleasant, surprisingly high level of activity. The move to Mac hardware was a great idea. I'm concise, because I admit this is off-topic.
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I'll give Crux PPC a try. Next question is how to install? I net installed Debian before, and don't really have TFTP or NFS available without significant effort.

I would love to support MorphOS but as I am not interested in a GUI really (because of the overhead on such a small RAM area) and they charge a large amount of money for a license I'm afraid I can't, really.

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I would love to support MorphOS but as I am not interested in a GUI really (because of the overhead on such a small RAM area) and they charge a large amount of money for a license I'm afraid I can't, really.
After boot up I have about 85 MB RAM still available. RAM shortage is an issue though. But for playing a bit around the demo version may be enough. It is w/o any restriction except that 30 min after each a boot up the system will slow down massively (you're just able to move the mouse and use the shell for simple things like typing the "reboot" command). At least the Efika with the MorphOS demo is enough to get an impression of MorphOS and to let you know whether you rather like it or not (both is likely, it is a matter of personal taste).
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I'll give Crux PPC a try. Next question is how to install? I net installed Debian before, and don't really have TFTP or NFS available without significant effort.

I would love to support MorphOS but as I am not interested in a GUI really (because of the overhead on such a small RAM area) and they charge a large amount of money for a license I'm afraid I can't, really.
http://www.cruxppc.org/Main/EfikaInstall#m3
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Ah, thanks. RT*W*FM helps I guess :)

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I'd be particularly interested in trying Crux again if that Live CD or trimmed tar file is ever going to see the light of day.

From the end of http://cruxppc.org/Main/EfikaInstall
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The Future

In the near future we'll release a starter kit and we're considering two options and probably we'll produce both..
A first solution is a very trimmed system in a tar file, so it's ready to be untarred on an usb pendrive and then configured and used, or used for a more complete install on some other media. The second one is a live CD for PPC and a live CD for x86 with TFTP server and NFS share ready, so the EFIKA can boot the installer from network.
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I'd be particularly interested in trying Crux again if that Live CD or trimmed tar file is ever going to see the light of day.
mmh, i never saw a Live CD instead about the trimmed tar it was done (you must look for CRUX PPC 2.2) but never released as stable.
I guess they didn't see any interest from the user community.

from CRUX PPC news archive
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2007-06-12: Efika “ready to use” archive

A small test archive of a a subset of the core CRUX PPC ports has been prepeared by The CRUX PPC Team. The download is only 46Mb and the disk space required to untar the whole system is 190Mb.
The archive is ready to be untarred on an USB Pendrive and booted/used from there on the EFIKA.

We hope to release soon an improved and fine-tuned Efika archive; we will probably remove some terminfo and gconv files and some packages to reduce disk footprint, and will provide fine-tuned kernel with new patches along with a very simple dialog based network package fetcher and installer.
Please see the “Contributed ISOs and Images” on the Download page for download links and infos.

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