Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Sep 2007 21:35 UTC, submitted by nicoladagostino
"Slackintosh was a little-known PPC port of Slackware Linux which after some years of development was put on indefinite hiatus. Adrian Ulrich has recently restarted the project and is again providing (together with Marco Bonetti) a Slackware distribution for Apple (and non-Apple) RISC-powered hardware. We contacted him for a short interview to ask him what happened, what is his role and what is the distribution's status."
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RE: non-Apple RISC-powered hardware = Amiga?
by memson on Thu 20th Sep 2007 11:52 UTC
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Those are all "PowerPC". RISC includes a number of architectures: ARM processors are RISC for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC
RE: non-Apple RISC-powered hardware = Amiga?
by BluenoseJake on Thu 20th Sep 2007 13:48 UTC
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Don't forget Power.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/ca/en/intellistation/power/index.html
This is available to the common user, and while very expensive, it's not much different in price to a tricked out powermac
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Just being a little behind Debian and Gentoo, Slackware must be about the third most ported full-featured Linux distribution. There are ports available for AMD64, Alpha, SPARC, ARM, S/390 and with Slackintosh to PPC as well. I have a private port of Slackware 12.0 to MIPS and SPARC and there could be many others to all kinds of different architectures.
Edited 2007-09-20 12:27 UTC
