PPCnux published a followup interview with Pieter Van den Abeele, David Holm, Lars Weiler and Sascha Schwabbauer from the Gentoo/PPC team. They are currently working on out of the box cross compilation for OSX, Cygwin and Linux.
Followup Interview with Gentoo/PPC Team
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Ich findet es ziemlich schwer, when such a radical change in language occurs in an article. Zuerst glaubt man, dass diese Artikel auf Deutsch ist, but then it goes back to English. Verrückt.
“cross compilation for OSX, Cygwin and Linux” how cool does that want to be?
Fantastic. It will support 95 dots per square inch. Why that is 10 lines will be one inch and ten dots across will be 1 inch. That is lower than the first CRTs supported. ROFL.
I think that they meant 95 dots per inch (horizontally).
Yeah! I’ve wanted to do this, and have done some minimalistic trials for cygwin -> i686-gnu-linux compiling. And, at a conceptual level, it doesn’t make sense to use cygwin to do cross compilation if there is already a win32 port of the compiler being used for the distributed compiling(presumably gcc) Check it out: mingw.org . From my experience, and others I have heard about – cygwin is slow, especially for compiling. We don’t we use a navtive win32 compiler.
Mark Guertin, the guy who made the Gentoo/PPC port what it is today. He was, unfortunatly, another victim of Daniel Robbins’ rather dictorial fashion of running Gentoo as a whole. He just didn’t write a big column about it unlike what Gert Bevin did. Too bad he isn’t with the Gentoo development crew anymore, because I always found Mark helpful in fixing things, especially at the very beginning when a stable Gentoo/PPC port was a pipedream
At least Mark Guertin is listed in the developer’s hall of fame:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/devlist.xml
jt: Those “Daniel Robbins is a dictator”-myths are mostly spread by ex-developers that were not satisfied with <insert your favourite reason here>.
I often heard such things too but when I joined the Gentoo development team (April 2004) I noticed that this just isn’t true.
Daniel often writes very detailed e-mails about his plans, his current actions and the direction he wants to go (of course, some mails only go to the internal -core list but check gentoo-dev archives, you find some of those mails there, too)
If someone doesn’t agree with Daniel (and speaks up ! So many complaints are based on things that people never mentioned to one of the development managers) then there is an effort to find a solution everybody agrees with, and IMHO, Daniel is quite good at that.
I can’t think of a situation where Daniel “just did it” although most developers didn’t agree, that just doesn’t happen.
I really wish all those “Daniel Robbins is like a dictator”-myths wouldn’t be spread anymore…
Of course some things whent sub-ideal but all those myths don’t have a solid base in most cases (just read the sentences above
).
I am sorry, in the message above I of course wanted to say “April 2003”, sorry.
(this belongs in the “humor” category)
When I visited SeaWorld two weekends ago with my wife and daughter, I was *naturally* drawn to the penguin house. Of note were a series of posters describing the different penguin species, including the gentoo penguin. The linux Gentoo folks describe the gentoo penguin as a “small, fast penguin”, but actually the gentoo is huge. It is the third largest penguin species, exceeded in size only by the king and emperor penguins. I don’t know if it is “fast”. I was really intrigued by the rockhopper and macaroni penguins, who have bizarre feathers on their heads that seem to have a more underground or alternative connotation. I wonder when we will see “Rockhopper Linux” showing up on the web.
PPCNUX.de faces German. But as the most developers within the community are not german, we choose to publish in english.
But, if you like, make a translation.
Anyway, the opener is german, the Interview itself is english.
and, by the way : bedankt is a kind of flamsk/dutch,
tusen takk is understandable to most of the scandinavians,
vielen Dank is german.
so, its jsut a not only english, german.
strange, uh ?
krgds,
mit freundlichen Grüssen,
Frank Hollenbach
PS : we try to make it next tine in the world-Language Esperanto or, more alive, latin.
<quote>Mark Guertin, the guy who made the Gentoo/PPC port what it is today.</quote>
Mark is not the -only- guy who made Gentoo/PPC what it is today, there are other people that deserve credits for their work. Mark left because he claimed (amongst other things) that Daniel was claiming all credits for his work. You’re doing the same in Mark’s place now.
Marks most important contribution was the stage builder tool. Other stuff such as Livecds, stability, Porting to to Pegasos/rs6000/Amiga, etc were all subprojects developed/maintained by people other than Mark.
Mark’s many contributions (code/resources/time…) are all very much appreciated, however attributing all good things of the project to him is not right and a little unfair to the people who have also contributed good things. I would like to set that straight. I think every current PPC port developer likes to work with people that give each other credits. One guy claiming all would do no good to the project.
Pieter Van den Abeele
From: David Bruce (tampabay.rr.com),
I wonder when we will see “Rockhopper Linux” showing up on the web.
http://rhlinux.org/
It seems the site had some actual content rather than just redirecting to a personal blog like it does now, as Google got something in its cache.
Just some random trivia for ya’ll