On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 07:09:36PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Taiidan@??? wrote:
>
> > Debian supports POWER but why not devuan?
> >
> > I want a systemd free distro to run on a TALOS 2.
>
> My WAG (wild a**ed guess) is that among the fairly small pool of Devuan devs, there aren't enough (if any ?) with the right skills AND access to suitable hardware AND the time and "itch" to work on it.
> Given the relative availability/usage of the different platforms it makes sense to concentrate on Intel/AMD family, plus ARM, and only when they are "sorted" to more "minority" archs like Power. Being a long time Mac user, I've always had something of a soft spot for the Power architecture - from what I did know, it looked like a "cleaner" arch than Intel 586 and successors.
>

Trying to provide support for ppc64 is part of the Devuan plans. It
seems that we have access to a ppc64 build host atm, but we haven't
started using it as yet. I guess we will get back to it soonish. Any
help in that direction would be appreciated.

HND

KatolaZ

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