CRUX PPC

CRUX PPC GNU/Linux Project

CRUX PPC is a port of CRUX for the Power Architecture^® platform. It’s a GNU system with a Linux kernel and runs on Apple NewWorld (both 32 and 64bit) PowerPC, YDL Powerstation, Genesi PegasosII and EFIKA, ACube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP and pSeries servers. CRUX PPC includes support for laptop-specific features, extended hardware support and server tools.

CRUX PPC is a volunteer driven no-profit project based on the releases of CRUX for x86. It contains software written by a lot of different people, each software comes with its own license, chosen by its author. Parts written by CRUX PPC Team are to intend as free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Unlike other distributions, the primary goal of CRUX is not to be the most popular (read: biggest number of users) or to put as many features as possible into the system. The idea is rather to build a streamlined distribution, targetted at a specific audience which in turn gets a system without compromises. The result may not be the best distribution for everybody, but as mentioned above, that’s not the goal. If you’re part of the target audience however, you might enjoy running CRUX just as much as we do.

Sticky News

Latest stable release: CRUX PPC 2.6

We need donors supporting us with 64bit Power Architecture^® machines.

News

• CRUX PPC 2.6 released!
  Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100
  CRUX PPC 2.6 is now available. It works on Apple 32bit "NewWorld" G3/G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP (604e), YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER, and IBM pSeries RS64/POWERn.
  CRUX PPC 2.6 is, as usual, released via two different installation ISO: 32bit and 64bit. The 32bit version is based on a single lib toolchain instead the 64bit one comes with a multilib toolchain. These two versions share the same ports tree.
  See the download page!
  

• CRUX PPC 2.6RC2 is now available
  Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100
  CRUX PPC 2.6RC2 32/64 bit includes glibc 2.11, gcc 4.4.2 and binutils 2.20 .
  Please stay tuned and give us a feedback on CRUX PPC forum.
  

• CRUX PPC 2.5 and the old Pegasos1 G3
  Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0200
  Is now available a small addendum to use CRUX PPC 2.5 booting with a kernel linux-2.6.16.62.
  The provided kernel must be used on Genesi PegasosI (with hardware fix April 2) during the installation, i.e. when booting from the CRUX PPC 2.5 (32bit) ISO image.
  Give us a feedback on CRUX PPC forum.
  

• CRUX PPC 2.5a, bugfix release
  Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200
  CRUX PPC 2.5a is available. We fixed scsi_proc_fs and z85c30 serial support for apple32 and apple64 bootkernels.