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G5 donations received

Contributed by dhartmei on from the you-made-it-happen dept.

Just a brief follow-up on the G5 pledges story. The hateful bigot and the spineless engineers are happy to report that the controversy produced results as well as flames.

Dale informs us that the machine has been purchased. While G5 support is unlikely to be present in the upcoming 3.7 release (due to his ongoing work on the zaurus port), he's quite hopeful for 3.8. Thanks for the support.

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  1. By andy (81.165.99.242) on

    leaves me some time to get mine :-p
    good luck with the port.

  2. By Anonymous Coward (67.102.173.11) on

    Will the mini mac ever be supported? It's a really cheap mac, and would probably a perfect web/ftp/whatever appliance, can't beat the price.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (162.58.35.101) on

      Donate a couple, write some code, forward it on.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (67.102.173.11) on

        What needs to be done to get this thing going? I think it's a G4, not a G5, therefore code might already be in the tree, now I don't know anything about the motherboard/devices this thing is using, or how different it is from another G4. Anybody has additional info about this thing, or even tried obsd on it?

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        1. By gwyllion (134.58.253.131) on

          A bit early to try OpenBSD on it as Apple hasn't started shipping them ;)

        2. By Anonymous Coward (67.102.173.11) on

          Pictures of the mini mac here These pictures are interesting somehow, we know that the hard disk is sata (therefore unsupported, right?) The gfx is ATI, therefore, we can expect some issues, etc.

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          1. By danimal (209.130.193.226) on

            The hard drive is like that from a laptop. the tech specs says "Ultra ATA" so I'm thinking it's not SATA at all.

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            1. By Anonymous Coward (67.102.173.11) on

              Oh, good point, that explains the overcost for a larger disk, and the limited capacity of those. The entry model ($499) probably carries exactly the same hard disk than a 40G ipod in order to reduce costs.

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              1. By Otto Moerbeek (213.84.84.111) otto@drijf.net on http://www.drijf.net

                iPods use PCMCIA sized hard disks (1.8" iirc), which are way smaller than 2.5" laptop disks. There are at least two reseans why Apple would use 2.5" disks: they are smaller and use less power than regular 3.5" disks.

          2. By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on

            I've been using an SATA disk as the only disk in my OpenBSD fileserver since 3.5...

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            1. By Anonymous Coward (208.252.48.163) on

              Setting the BIOS to compatability mode doesn't count.

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              1. By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on

                I didn't do that... I just told the BIOS to boot from the external controller.

              2. By tedu (67.127.59.81) on

                giving an ignorant answer without consulting
                http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware
                doesn't count either.

            2. By CODOR (209.239.25.223) on

              Does it use a Highpoint chipset? They're actually PATA but use a separate PATA <-> SATA bridge (or mine does, at least).

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              1. By Anthony (68.145.111.152) on

                pciide1 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "CMD Technology SiI3112 SATA" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 wired to native-PCI, channel 1 wired to native-PCI

          3. By Anonymous Coward (202.45.125.5) on

            The gfx is ATI, therefore, we can expect some issues, etc.

            I use an ATI Radeon 9200 in my AMD XP PC with OpenBSD and no problems in X. If I am supposed to be having problems, can someone tell me what they are so I know what I'm missing out on? ; )

        3. By Anonymous Coward (162.58.35.101) on

          There are thoughts that it is basically an iBook in a different case. Get one, test it out, report to the developers.

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (67.102.173.11) on

            I'll ask my company to get one, and I'll provide a report on running openbsd on it, apple.com says that they will be available for shipping within 3 weeks, so be patient.

          2. By Brad (204.101.180.70) brad at comstyle dot com on

            It is either an iBook or it is not and the mobo looks nothing like a laptop mobo.

          3. By Anonymous Coward (62.255.240.131) on

            Its a new motherboard, but otherwise identical chipset to the latest Powerbooks.

    2. By RC (4.8.17.8) on

      > Will the mini mac ever be supported?

      Why would you ask that before it's even been released? The fact that it's a mac, and there is a macppc support pretty strongly indicates it will probably be supported.

      Will 128-bit processors ever be supported?

      > and would probably a perfect web/ftp/whatever appliance

      Except for the fact that it's not really expandable.

      > can't beat the price.

      Sure you can... Buy a PC :-)

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (195.217.242.33) on

        >Buy a PC

        euwwww !!!!!

    3. By Blake (81.57.19.80) on

      Many reports indicate that the Mac Mini and eMac are basically the same in terms of logic boards. If any instances of successfully booting eMacs could be found, I imagine that the Mini would probably work or could be easily made to work.

  3. By Anonymous Coward (67.102.173.11) on

    I'm receiving my mac mini tomorrow, I'll let you know what's up.

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    1. By James (141.154.42.135) on

      Donate it, you selfish jerk!

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      1. By xhrl (24.80.50.50) x on

        As an amateur outdoor photographer, I am looking forward to obtaining a 970 processor or g5 when the prices lower more to my affordability level. I read that the 970 has a unique vector-permute instruction that gives it an advantage over p4s in decryption and similar algorithms. This and its many data-manipulation instructions allow the processor to move bits around inside of a value with aplomb. Also, highly efficient Fast-Fourier algorithms have been written for the Velocity Engine. Fourier transforms are essential to a number of visual processing applications. So it will nice for artists and photography hobbyists etc..

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