CRUX PPC 2.2.0.2 is almost ready... here the first release candidate: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/downloads/crux-ppc-2.2.0.2-rc1.iso http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/downloads/crux-ppc-2.2.0.2-rc1.iso.md5sum If we get feedback that everything is alright, the stable release will come in the next two weeks. It took a while to get ready, but we're glad to announce that this release supports Apple PowerPC hardware (both 32 and 64 bit), Genesi PegasosII (with some tweaking it should get installed on PegasosI too), Genesi EFIKA (there is a nice howto on the many ways to install Crux PPC on it) and presumably more MPC5200B boards, IBM RISC/6000 32bit CHRP and IBM pSeries. Hardware support for Apple iBooks is almost full, only the proprietary modem drivers don't seem to get along well with recent kernels; all the known issues with the 2.2rc are now solved. Cjg contributed to the project with suggestions, a very cool kernel patch with customized logo, and by porting Ilenia to our ports layout; now you can use Ilenia as your ports/packages management tool, it's on the cd. Our repos now include software of daily use like OpenOffice2, mplayer, jre/jdk, eclipse and more (we hope MOL, qemu, gnash and other ports that we already have partly working) will be there soon. We're really looking forward to receive feedback and suggestions; The most useful thing to test is booting and disk detection on all flavours of Apple 64bit, IBM Risc/6000 and pSeries, and on Pegasos{II,I} (we don't own that kind of hardware, so even really simple tests/comments would be helpful). So have fun and please don't hesitate to write down your esperience and impressions here The handbook is available here: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/releases/2.2.0.2/handbook.html note that only chapters up to install chapter (included) are up to date, the upgrade chapter still refers to devfs device names, and is missing most of the notes on hardware support. Remaining chapters need small adaptation to the new ports layout and hints on how to use prt-get and ilenia on the multiarch ports tree. And here the nice HowTo on EFIKA install: http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/releases/2.2.0.2/efika-howto.pdf it will be soon ported to docbook-xml. greetz, The Crux PPC Team http://cruxppc.sunsite.dk/ -- vesuvio | LinuxMachine 156116 powered by GNU/Linux CRUX SIP: 652969@ekiga.net # GnuPG/PGP Key_ID: 0x378EECB8