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Συντάκτης: Adam Borowski
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Προς: dng
Αντικείμενο: Re: [DNG] TALOS 2 - The Libre Owner Controlled POWER9 Workstation/Server
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 04:03:57AM +0200, mdn wrote:
> I wonder how many packages already work on power compared to X86 ?


Since this is little-endian, old "power" (ie, powerpc and ppc64) won't work.
Thus, you need ppc64el packages only.

Binary packages in ppc64el unstable main: 53512
Binary packages in amd64 unstable main: 55586

There are probably some packages that compile but don't run but that's a
tiny minority as most software is sane. The biggest exception I know is
GNOME (at least as of jessie, no idea if they fixed it since) but good
riddance. GNOME programs still work from a sane WM, it's only GNOME's
window manager part that requires either a mid-end GPU with specific
capabilities or slow software emulation, the latter working only on amd64
and i386.


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