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This is the ROCK Linux Port to the PowerPC processor family. With the ROCK Linux 2.0 release in some weeks it will be ready for production use on Apple Macintosh hardware.
For the RS/6000 some adaptions might still be missing - but it should be trival to add those.
Apple Systems
Currently the main development is done on an Apple iBook. The current binary releases should work just fine on Apple New-World hardware with PowerPC 750 processor or newer (I optimize the official binaries for PowerPC 750 explicitly you could do your own builds with less optimizations).
IBM RS/60000 Systems
IBM sponsored an RS/6000 B50 box which was the main development platform for the ROCK Linux PowerPC port for the last years.
Inital port at 16C3 in only 3 days
The initial port of ROCK Linux happend at the 16th Chaos Communication Congress (aka 16C3) in Berlin from 1999-12-27 to 1999-12-29 on an Apple iMac Rev. A. It took us only three days to create a base system (including perl, apache, etc.) from scratch.
Todays status
Today the PowerPC port is maintained on an iBook (revision: 2.2 (pvr 7000 0202)). It is used for every day work by the ROCK Linux 2.0 stable tree maintainer.
A screenshot with a full-featured X11 and MacOS X running in MacOnLinux (MOL) can be found here.
9th June, 2003: drock-2.0.0-beta2.5-ppc_cd1.iso - the next iteration/test of the current boot/rescue CD
May, 2003: drock-2.0.0-beta-ppc (first CD-set including nearly a complete desktop build - the installation is not very automated ...) cd1 cd2
18th April, 2003: drock-2.0.0-alpha2-ppc_cd1.iso (first bootable test CD)
| drock-install-20-ppc.html | Installing ROCK Linux on IBM RS/6000 B50 Servers |
| rs6000-rock-install.txt | Installing ROCK Linux on IBM RS/6000 B50 Servers |
| urls.html | PowerPC/Linux related information on the internet |
| rs6000-rock-install.txt | HowTo: Installing ROCK Linux on IBM RS/6000 B50 Servers |
| rs6000-linux-boot-tipps.txt | How to boot a kernel using the OpenFirmware |
| rs6000-linux-2.4.16-config.txt | The kernel configuration I'm using on my RS/6000 |
| rs6000-linux-2.4.16-zImage.chrp-rs6k | The kernel chrp-rs6k image I'm using on my RS/6000 |
| rs6000-linux-2.4.16-system.map | The System.map file for kernel image |
| BootX_1.2.2.sit | MacOS Programm for booting a Linux Kernel |
| imac-linux-2.4.0-test9-config.txt | The Kernel Configuration I'm using on my iMac Rev. A |
| imac-vmlinux-2.4.0-test9.img | The Kernel Image I'm using on my iMac Rev. A |
| imac-vmlinux-2.4.0-test4.img | An older Kernel Image for the iMac |