openSUSE 10.0 beta4 for PPC is available for download from http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Download

Hi, this is great. Just to keep everyone posted on this:

1. We are shipping an ODW to Matthias Frühauf of the spicy SuSE Linux PPC Team ASAP.

2. We have started some discussions with Novell about the Linux PPC Desktop and how this could be involved with www.power.org

3. We have re-energized interest at IBM after this announcement:

Genesi Press Release, 30 August

This also ties back to www.power.org

=> Our feeling is that the PowerPC marketing message to the world is in chaos after the Apple announcement. With Novell and the members of Power.org we can start to fix that.

What is the markerting moniker? We eat our own dogfood! We are using a Linux PowerPC desktop!

After all we have been talking about it for a while:

Avalanche

IBM

Freescale

We think that without Apple using PowerPC it will be increasingly difficult to sell PowerPC servers or even clusters when there are no broadly used PowerPC desktops that people can use to do things like even just playback a video. That may sound ridiculous, but it is true. We have tried to hammer this same basic point home to IBM in the past and gave up to focus on Freescale. At the time, IBM's official corporate policy was to not displace Windows on the desktop. With SUSE working on PowerPC it may be a whole new ballgame with IBM no longer in the "PC" business. We will strongly support this.

The PowerPC message seems to be coming together with the 32 and 64-bit kernel merger and indications that Freescale may join Power.org too. We hope IBM understands how important having Freescale involved is, after all these years Freescale is really the only one left subscribing to the original ideas of AIM...

Oh yeah, we added OpenSUSE here:

http://www.pegasosppc.com/software.php

R&B

@czp - your ODW is on the way to you. We appreciate your help. Also, another one was shipped to the "Spicy" PowerPC SUSE Linux Team in Germany. We certainly want the platform supported fully by the end of September for the final 10.0 release.

R&B

Thank you very much! It is now in Paris, as far as I can see! It will be here for RC1!
CzP

this great news I Hope we can get the point home =). THat ppc is not dead. Im downloadign this to take a look right now is there a place i should report any serrios bugs?

Yes. Here are some:

Things not to report (sort of toplist )
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Bugs: ... oying_bugs

PPC specific documentation:
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PowerPC_Documentation

Bugzilla, where the rest of bugs can be found, and should be entered.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/index.cgi
This requires an account, which can be created in a few minutes.

CzP

Great!

http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PPC:S ... d_hardware

The Pegasos/ODW is now on the supported hardware list.

Thanks to Marcel/Frostwork and czp!

Also, the "Spicy SUSE" Team now has their own ODW to play with.

R&B

Could delta ISOs be made available like they are for x86 and x86-64 platforms?

I asked it on the beta list, and I wast told, that there will be delta iso for beta4_RC1.