Good news for MintPPC / Debian users on PowerPC: progress has been made on mesa-amber lately. I was contacted by a fellow called Alexis Lavie, a guy from France who is skilled in Linux and Java. He showed me that he got mesa-amber working on a G4 MDD 2003 with a Radeon 9000 Pro graphics …
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LMDE 7 updated
Since today users of LMDE 7 arm64 will be able to upgrade to the latest Gigi based on Zena:sudo apt updatesudo apt upgrade For people who would like to install the latest LMDE 7 Gigi from scratch using the latest iso image, please send an email. The official announcement by the Linux Mint Team to …
firmware-b43-installer
The package firmware-b43-installer which was in the MintPPC repository did not work anymore for a while. Users of MintPPC could therefore not use the airport card. I deleted the packages from the server. To have a working airport, you need to make sure you have the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main You then …
Updates to LMDE 7
I noticed activity in the packages of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 on the servers of Linux Mint. It means that we are close to a release of Linux Mint “Zena” and an upgrade to LMDE 7. The most important updates are a renewed menu, a “System Reports” tool to help finding problems and recommended …
Libreoffice
Hi, just a quick heads-up: After fixing a longstanding upstream bug [1], LibreOffice isfinally available on 32-bit PowerPC (powerpc) again. It can be installed with: # apt install libreoffice Feel free to test and report back! Thanks,Adrian [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1122336
Reminder
An update in my MintPPC system upgraded grub. If you do this on your system, don’t forget to repair the boot partition afterwards withfsck.hfs /dev/sda2
LMDE 7 “Gigi” released
LMDE 7, code named Gigi, has been released today by the Linux Mint team. I am ready with LMDE 7 arm64 too. The ISO can be purchased via this website. The procedure to install LMDE 7 arm64 in UTM on Apple Silicon can be seen here.
LMDE 7 Beta release
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 Beta has been released and I am up to date with the changes. When a stable version is released, the arm64 version will follow suit soon thereafter. I will not give away this release for free anymore. Upgrade from LMDE 6 goes smooth and without any issues. I just performed …
VLC
I was able to build the latest VLC for PowerPC, after many years being unable to be built. It was shown to work on the new Mirari board, a PowerPC based computer with the e5500 chip. The Mirari does not have Altivec instructions. The VLC packages were built with Altivec disabled. VLC PowerPC is only …
BrassMonkey
Today BrassMonkey, an internet suite application, was added to the MintPPC repository. To install: sudo apt updatesudo apt install brassmonkey Info at github