GNU/Linux PowerPC Notebook at “Fa’ la cosa giusta!” fair of conscious consumption

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Roberto Innocenti

This saturday 14th March I will present to everybody our GNU/Linux PowerPC notebook project at “Fa’ la cosa giusta!” – The national fair of conscious consumption and sustainable lifestyles (Italy) 12th edition, Milan, 13-14-15 March 2015 – more info about “Fa’ la cosa giusta!”

Fa La Cosa Giusta – The national fair of conscious consumption and sustainable lifestyles

I will be in the “padiglione 4” of Fieramilanocity, Peace and Partecipation, stand PP06 inside the stand of “computer solidarity” (Informatica Solidale) association.

I will be there trying to recruit volunteers for the PowerPC Notebook project; inform the wider Computer and FOSS community about the projects existence, I will provide updated information about how my endeavors go and I hope this time I will take more photos

We have opened a new board, Public physical Presentation , on the forum where everyone can share information about events where the GNU/Linux PowerPC Notebook project makes an appearance or is mentioned. Continue reading →

debian ppc64 and Fedora ppc64 for PowerPC Notebook

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Roberto Innocenti

As you can see from the updated about page you now know who are the people which are working on this project. More people are still being contacted right now and soon you will know them.

Fedora ppc64 on PowerPC Notebook

Peter Czanik talked with many people about this project at FOSDEM 2015 as he wrote on the forum and even at DevConf.cz where the Fedora/RHEL PPC team promised to help if needed to make Fedora run on our PowerPC 64 bit Notebook.

Anyone that wants to help with Fedora ppc64 please contact us or subscribe to the newsletter and you will receive the survey “how to take part to the project.”

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New PPC Notebook Forums and a lot of interest

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Roberto Innocenti

Dear Friends of the PPC Notebook,

There has been a lot of interest in this project with more than more than 140 individuals subscribing to be part of this movement to produce a modern PowerPC notebook computer.

Many of you who have subscribed have filled out the questionnaire e-mailed to you, and a sincere thank you for this first contact. We ask that you give us some time to sort through the information sent to us, we will get back to you soon.

Thank you to those who have began the process of translating the website into several languages (i.e. French, German, Italian, Portuguese, English, etc.). This is an important step in the project as it will allow us to reach out to the FOSS community as a whole, as well as bring more credibility to the project.

We have a long road ahead of us before this projects goals are reached, but we are very committed to making a PPC notebook a reality. A huge thank you to those who help make this project work.

New Forum Online!

The GNU/Linux PowerPC Notebook forums are online and active. Some of the community have already registered and everyone is invited to join us at http://forum.powerpc-notebook.org

Happy New Year!

2015 is going to be an important year for this project.

“The PowerPC Notebook team”

P.S. – Keep your eyes on the About pages for each localization as they will be updated with the names of those team members who have contributed already.

Presentation slides used at Linux Day 2014

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Roberto Innocenti

In the morning of October 25th I presented our project to the students participating at Milan’s LinuxDay, while during the afternoon I repeated my speech in front of everybody else. The presentation was so popular that there were more people than seats and a few had to stand to attend my speech.

The aim was to explain what PowerPC is and to show how Free Software is not bound to a particular CPU architecture. The slides used during the presentation were written for everybody, even for people who know nothing about PowerPC.
Below two pictures taken during and after the presentation.

Linux Day 2014 Open Source PowerPC notebook presentation

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PowerPC notebook project at Linux Day 2014

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Roberto Innocenti

At LinuxDay in Milan this 25th October I (Roberto Innocenti) will present the project “Open Source Linux PowerPC notebook” and I want to join together passionate peoples that want a new open source PowerPC notebook.
In the presentation I will give some more details about the projects, my interest is to build up a small but vigorous community of enthusiasts.

Here some guide lines of this PowerPC notebook:

Open (community involvement in development)
Upgradeable (MXM video card, RAM, SDD / HDD, etc)
Italian motherboard design (we hope to be produced and assembled in Italy)
Power/powerpc architecture last generation (64-bit advanced AltiVec, multi tread)
For gaming virtualization of Wii / WiiU, ps3, xbox360
Virtualization macosx powerpc
Power/powerpc gnu/linux server virtualization for professionals