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2022 Linux/BSD Popularity Poll

Which Distro do you use?

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ifrit05

ifrit05

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Everyone chime in with what distro you currently use. Just a curiosity while I figure out how to get Adelie to run correctly on my Powermac11,2. Any tips on how you got your install to work is welcome.

Edit: Whoops forgot Gentoo.
 
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ifrit05 said:
Everyone chime in with what distro you currently use. Just a curiosity while I figure out how to get Adelie to run correctly on my Powermac11,2. Any tips on how you got your install to work is welcome.

Edit: Whoops forgot Gentoo.
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Mint, because I appreciate sane defaults.
 
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Void because it's "simple and lean" to the extremes without needing to compile like Gentoo requires, but since 2023 it's around the corner maybe I have to take some time again to learn how to do it o_O if I wanna a Linux up to date.

To be specific Void GLIBC because on my PPC (32 or 64) I like to be able to use "a modern" browser (thanks @wicknix again!) Because of many issues, quirks and incompatibilities that needed to be patched on a pure MUSL system to works, but when it works... It flies!

That's my hope on Adélie coming to PPC, besides Alpine their try to make some wizardry (compatibility layers and other things) to make GLIBC software "more compatible" but the downside to me it's not rolling release, and I don't like to reinstall or migrate my working machines. Just install, update and forget.

On my X86 (also X86_64) and Raspberry Pi it's Void MUSL all the way.
 
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Mint hasn't been updated in ages, right? The install instructions seem to be out of date. That said, I didn't try too hard to get it to work, at the time.
 
Manjaro / Garuda / Arch with KDE Plasma. Would prefer FreeBSD, alas no CUDA breaks the deal
 
My suggestion it's to always look for available distros on this link (They recently changed the domain, so it's updated ;)) Because there are many more options that we know.

Tratkazir_the_1st said:
I still need to learn about crossdev & distcc
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That's something considering the power of modern machines that can make Gentoo a really viable option on our PowerPC's, but the problem as always it's the documentation (or lack of documentation in this case) since our machines are a small fraction (running Linux even less) they have a official documentation on how to do it for RaspberryPi.

There was a topic from 2020 on their forums, but with questions, not a step-by-step on how to do it. So the user has to take any clues and put it together, because that's the problem in my point of view with Open Source: They make it so easy and PnP that don't require any action for the end user, or they make it so complicated that you need a really long beard and lot's of knowledge do properly do it.
 
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My main pc runs void linux ppc so I try to stick with what I'm most familiar with on my powermacs. I run lubuntu on one of my g5's though.

Not ppc hardware but I do run netbsd on my sun blade 150, it works pretty well(at least after recompiling the kernel to get my gpu working) and makes me want to try it out on one of my powermacs
 
Tratkazir_the_1st said:
github.com

GitHub - tarmiste/lfs-non-ia: Build Linux From Scratch for PowerPc and ARM

Build Linux From Scratch for PowerPc and ARM . Contribute to tarmiste/lfs-non-ia development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com github.com
Who thinks Gentoo is hard - just read about this monster :D.
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To my limited knowledge of Linux in general... Gentoo it's a more "automated and elegant" way of LFS, because you can customize it to the extremes restricting packages and configuration to an absurd granularity, but with that level of power you generally need to have an equal level of knowledge to properly manage it.

And unfortunately not everyone has (either for limited time to "dive and learn", or for the lack of documentation) what it takes without being close to lose to the insanity. But that doesn't means that isn't "fun".

Thanks for sharing this with us
 
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from my cold dead hands
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I choose Other since it is a derivative of an old version of FreeBSD.

uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:57:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_PPC

Mac OS X Version 10.5.8

see you in 2038
 
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