Free ppc software for linux

DistccPPCKnoppix is a Knoppix distribution which contains distcc servers for both Linux x86 and OSX ppc compiling. With it you can utilize your extra x86 computers to build Linux x86 and OSX PPC binaries.

After running across "Building a Darwin cross compiler for use with distcc and fink" and "HOWTO: Use Gentoo Distcc Host to cross-compile for OSX" I quickly set out and build my own cross compiler to speed up my Apple OSX development. Like most people I have more x86 hardware then I do ppc. It didnt take long to get it build and a test distccd server up to show that it was working.

When I compile for Linux x86 I use distccKnoppix to utilize all my spare x86 computers I have lying around. Using the Knoppix Remastering Howto I quickly added the ppc cross compiler to distccKnoppix. Now when it boots two distccd demons start on separate ports. The default port (3632) has the x86 compiler and the ppc compiler is on port 3633.

Now Apple developers finally have a use for their x86 hardware (that they can admit to). This is also a nice cheap way to speed up OSX compiling and development.

Source Mage GNU/Linux distribution is based on a sorcerous metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" packages, which we refer to as "spells".
This is a development ISO and potentially loaded with bugs and glitches. This is where you come in. We need your help to squash these bugs.
Please download, burn, and install this ISO to a spare partition, extra computer, or over your least favorite friends Windows partition. VMWare or bochs works too. Upon finding a glitch, please report it in bugzilla. No bug is too small, or too large.
Help shape the future of Source Mage! Download the Next Generation Testing ISO and install!
Enhancements:
- A "dependency" scheme was added to make sure you dont accidentally skip a vital step or do things in the wrong order.
- You can still override dependencies if you really know what youre doing.
- Spells are now installed in the background while you are busy selecting options.
- Software RAID support via mdadm was added.

OpenMCL is an opensourced Common Lisp implementation, licensed under a Lisp-specific variant of the LGPL, and derived from Digitools MCL product. Versions are available for LinuxPPC and for Darwin , the BSD/Mach layer on which MacOSX is based.

Installation:

OpenMCL runs under relatively recent versions of LinuxPPC . It requires version 2.2.13 (or later) of the Linux kernel and version 2.1.3 (or later) of the GNU C library (glibc). Its been reported that OpenMCL runs reliably under version 2.4 of the Linux kernel.

OpenMCL binary releases are distributed as gziped tar archives whose names are of the form "openmcl-PLATFORM-bin-x.y.tar.gz", where "PLATFORM" is one of "linuxppc" or "darwinppc" and "x" and "y" are major/minor version numbers. Some of the major things which binary releases contain are:

* the OpenMCL kernel: "ccl/ppccl" for LinuxPPC, "ccl/dppccl" for DarwinPPC
* the OpenMCLinitial heap image: "ccl/PPCCL" for LinuxPPC, "ccl/dppccl.image" for DarwinPPC
* ccl/README-openmcl-bin-x.y
* ccl/scripts/openmcl

OpenMCL source releases are also distributed as gziped tar archives whose names (not surprisingingly) are of the form "openmcl-src-x.y.tar.gz". These are archives of a checked-out copy of the OpenMCL CVS tree as of the corresponding binary release. Source releases contain:

ccl/
ccl/CVS/
ccl/CVS/Root
ccl/CVS/Repository
ccl/CVS/Entries
ccl/CVS/Entries.Log
ccl/binppc/
ccl/binppc/CVS/
ccl/binppc/CVS/Root
...

and quite a few other things; e.g., theyre intended to create and/or populate the same ccl directory.

So, release tar.gz archives should be extracted from the directory that is or will be the parent of the

ccl directory; if youd prefer to obtain OpenMCL sources via CVS the cvs get command should be issued from the parent directory as well. (The CVS -d option and GNU tars -C option can also be used, but the intent is that sources and binaries wind up in the same ccl directory.)

For example, assuming that one wants to make the ccl directory be "~/lisp/ccl":

1. Download the binary release archive.

> cd ~/lisp

2. Do something like:

> tar foxvz openmcl-PLATFORM-bin-x.y.tar.gz

That should create (or update the contents of) ~/lisp/ccl.

You could then either (a) repeat the process with the corresponding source release archive, or (b) having done a "cvs login" to the clozure.com CVS server at some point, issue a "cvs get" from ~/lisp.

Its possible to use the OpenMCL binaries without having installed the sources, but some functionality (like non-trivial usage of the LOOP macro) is autoloaded.

After having installed a binary release for the first time, you should consider installing the OpenMCL shell script .

Its possible (and, assuming the use of NFS or something similar, quite useful) to "share" the same directory between Linux and Darwin.

Note that binary distributions intentionally do not contain the OpenMCL interface database for either platform. The interface database files are fairly large and (ideally) fairly stable - their contents should change less frequently than the lisp itself - and are therefore distributed separately. Its necessary to install the appropriate interface database in order to compile OpenMCL sources.

Important: If you just double-click the file instead of running this command line, it will open in Stuffit Expander. This will wind up creating a new directory named ccl.1 (or ccl.2, or...), because Stuffit will see your existing ccl directory and assume that you dont want the new files to be mixed in with the old ones. But in this case, you do want them to be mixed in! Thats why youre using the tar program, instead.

Aptsh is a pseudo-shell for systems with Apt package managing tool. Aptsh is similar to AptShell from AptRpm, but it works not only with AptRpm (actually, its being developed with Debians Apt).
Also, its inspired by The Poldek from PLD. But, what does it exactly do? Well, if you use Apt, you should know the situation - search for a package with apt-cache and copy its name to apt-get, repeat. And, you probably do not enjoy the situation before last execution of apt-get.
If so, consider using aptsh - it offers that cute TAB completion which you always use while unix-shelling. Its smart enough to decide whether youre trying to remove or install/upgrade a package, and doesnt suggests you to remove your Gnome since you are a KDE maniac who has never seen (and never installed) that ugly Gnome.
In short: a tool which makes life easier, although its not necessary.
You may find few similarities between Aptsh and things like Wajig or Feta. Yes, its the same sort of applications.
Enhancements:
- A bug which may have caused strange behavior of the orphans-* commands on some architectures (i.e. ppc) was fixed.
- A bug in the rls and ls commands was fixed: if a given argument matched files in the current directory (wildcard), then the names of these files were used instead of typed text in some shells.
- Aptsh can be run with commands as program arguments.
- Many minor bugs were fixed, and many minor features were added.
- Many internal improvements were done, and the code seems cleaner now.

BnIRC is an open-source and free of charge (licensed under the GPL version 2) IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Client for POSIX compliant systems (Linux, BSD, and other unix variants). It is known to build under linux on x86, FBSD on sparc64 and cygwin (x86/windows). We provide this program to help support the Open Source community. Please visit the wiki for more information and installation instructions for your particular OS.
bnIRC is an IRC framework for programmers and an ncurses IRC client for anybody. It is Free (as in Freedome And Beer) Software under the GPL license. If you would like to show your appreciation for bnIRC please Support This Project. 10% of all donations go to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
bnIRC is for POSIX-compliant OSs (most unixes and linux), it is tested on debian/x86 and FreeBSD/sparc64, there are known issues on the PPC architecture, if you try it on sparc32, alpha, mips, or any other arch, please drop me a line letting me know what happens. The wiki has installation directions for several Linux distributions and for FBSD.
Many thanks to ions for helping with the original bnIRC webpage, and janne_oksanen with his extensive help on the Documentation, and to all those that have helped with bug finding etc...
If you are new to IRC learn the following commands:
/nick your_preferred_nickname
/connect irc.freenode.net
/join #justlinux
and just start talking :), I am in there as brandon_niemczyk (or a variant of) much of the time. You should also check out the wiki
I would appreciate any comments/flames/bugs you would like to send brandon@snprogramming.com
Enhancements:
- added persistant.py script

Splashy is a boot splash program that doesnt require patching the Linux kernel. Splashy project paints graphic images directly to framebuffers using libdirectfb.

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VGA settings
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640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
256 colors 768 771 773 775
32K colors 784 787 790 793
64K colors 785 788 791 794
16M colors 786 789 792 795
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For 1024x768 at 16bit (64K colors or "thousands of colors") you could pass an argument to the kernel like:

vga=791

These values could be used in base16 also (hexadecimal) like:

vga=0x317

To pass arguments to the kernel, you would need to edit your boot-loader:

1. Grub /boot/grub/menu.lst
hint, in debian, look for "#kopt" and append vga=0x317 to that line. Then run update-grub. Other distros edit the kernel root= line appropriately
2. Lilo /etc/lilo.conf
hint, look for the default image= and edit append= by appending vga=0x317 to it
3. Quik /etc/quik.conf
on PPC machines. Append vga=0x317 to the kernel argument line

diet libc contains the system call wrappers and the most commonly-used functions you expect from a libc.
diet libc can be used to create small, statically-linked binaries under x86, AMD64, SPARC, SPARC64, PPC, PPC64, ARM, MIPS, MIPS64, PA-RISC, S/390, S/390x (64-bit S/390), and Alpha-Linux.
Enhancements:
- Improvements to GCC 4 support. toascii, ustat, strnlen, clearenv, ngettext, dngettext, strdupa, and strndupa are provided.
- Extended attribute, thread, and misc. syscalls have been added.
- There are many general and platform-specific bugfixes.