Hi,
Does anybody know of a small Linux distro that will run on PPC processors? I only need small sections from it like gcc and perl.
Reason being, I have a Tivo and I want to add some more functions to it, eg get it to generate a web page that tells me what it's recorded. OK, I know it's sad, when I could just use the menus, but it runs Linux...therefore it's hackable :-)
Thanks
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Chris Glover wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody know of a small Linux distro that will run on PPC processors? I only need small sections from it like gcc and perl.
The only three PPC distros that I'm aware of are LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog and SuSE, although I'm sure there must be others. I guess Yellow Dog *might* be the leanest of them, but they're all trying to be fully-featured distros!
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ http://www.linuxppc.com/ http://www.suse.de/uk
Jo
<DELURK> Can't you just use a cross compiler (I know you can cross compile for MIPs on Intel)? Take a look at the internet user groups for compiling for say the Compaq IPAQ (SH3 based I believe)... I believe if you install the correct libraries, you can compile for most platforms on intel!
Regards
Dan Jones </DELURK> ----- Original Message ----- From: jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk To: "Chris Glover" chris@glovercc.clara.co.uk; "alug" alug@stu.uea.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [Alug] PPC Linux stuff for use on a Tivo
Chris Glover wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody know of a small Linux distro that will run on PPC
processors? I
only need small sections from it like gcc and perl.
The only three PPC distros that I'm aware of are LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog and SuSE, although I'm sure there must be others. I guess Yellow Dog *might* be the leanest of them, but they're all trying to be fully-featured distros!
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ http://www.linuxppc.com/ http://www.suse.de/uk
Jo
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