Our third Firefox build is now for version 3.5. As I still use Debian GNU/Linux every day on my PowerBook G4 there is of course a need for version 3.5. As you can expect the build runs very smooth except that I miss the sound of the new html5 video tag. Looks like Firefox is wired to a sound lib I don't use or something is misconfigured. But that's only a little black spot.

The most recent Top 500 supercomputer list still features 2 or 3 PowerPC
systems in the top 5, though the number Intel-based systems continue to grow.

Genesi has posted an update and a warning about Cherrypal, a rebranded Limepc, which uses Freescale's 5121e PowerPC
processor. Due to the PowerPC connection, a few people got excited and were

www.debian-desktop.org is offering a live CD image download based upon lenny with their KDE 4.2.3 packages.

Further reading: http://www.debian-desktop.org/

Attention: The image is more than 800 MB!
At the moment the image is available for i386 and amd64. PowerPC will come soon.

The actual stable KDE Version is available as backport for Lenny on www.debian-desktop.org.

Important changes compared to the original Debian packages:

The linked blog post says it all. Nothing is final yet, but pretty soon PowerPC
will probably become a "secondary architecture" in Fedora. Nobody's quite sure

Analyzing streaming data is an interesting application for a supercomputer, and
apparently IBM just sold a prototype of its "System S" to TD Securities, a

MontaVista, a leading embedded Linux vendor, will demonstrate its "Fast Boot"
technology on a Freescale 5121e processor at the upcoming "Embedded

If you like you can test the free helpdesk software ORTS in version 2.4 beta. ORTS succeeded in business and is used as helpdesk and ticket tracking software. Version 2.4 is now in beta state and ready to be tested by the users.

The PPCNUX-server is running now for almost two years. Time for a basic update. Therefore the PPCNUX might be unavailable sometimes during the next days. The update will be done in several steps. We expect to be done by 2009-04-19. the update to be finished soon.