@FaheemMitha Yeah, not sure when I started with Debian. 2000 maybe?

I ran potato. I don't think I ran slink.

Potato added PowerPC support, so I probably switched to Debian around when potato came out.

Which was August 14th, 2000.

@derobert About the same time as I did. About a year later, I think. June 2001.

Why can't I access my server after shutting it down?

and they say there's no stupid question!

@Gilles only stupid people making questions...

@derobert PowerPC was that Apple thing, right? Now dead.

@Gilles Says who?

@Gilles Yeah. I saw that one. Sigh...

@derobert do you understand that apt debug output? @Gilles ditto?

@FaheemMitha Not without studying it. Was there an actual problem?

@FaheemMitha powerpc is an RISC architecture created by IBM, Apple and Motorola

@derobert No

@casey Well, Ok. But I associate it mostly with Apple.

Hello, I'm trying to follow this instruction github.com/porjo/mt7601 to install drivers for my cheap wifi dongle, but when I run make I get error "/lib/modules/3.18.7-v7+/build No such file or directory". How can I fix it?

I think there might have been some apple clones, though.

@akn Ask a question on the site.

@FaheemMitha it was based on IBM's POWER instruction set and current POWER chips fully implement the PowerPC instruction set

@casey current POWER chips? They're still around?

@FaheemMitha oh yes, POWER 8 was released just last year

@derobert the idea is to have a reference. the next time someone asks about an apt problem, we could tell him to turn on the debugging flag. but that doesn't help if nobody understands the output.

@casey Oh. Who uses it?

@FaheemMitha IBM

@casey I thought IBM was out of the hardware/software business and doing services now.

@FaheemMitha they didn't spin off the big iron, just the consumer stuff

@casey Oh. So, mainframes, then. I kind of thought everyone used the consumer stuff now. amd64, that sort of thing.

@FaheemMitha they high end stuff tends to run either Xeon or Power

POWER7 powers ~27% of the computers on the top500 list (Nov 2014)

@casey huh. I thought it was all Beowulf. I assume these are not clusters, though.

@FaheemMitha Beowulf doesn't imply any specific CPU (though they are typically commodity level chips), its more about the properties of the cluster

but the fast majority of the top500 are cluster architectures

typically with very fast interconnects

@casey oh

Here is the part where I beg for an upvote on Fedora's community promotion ad....

Please please pretty please?

It just needs one more. Thanks!

@mattdm There you go. Damn, I'd forgotten to vote on most of those.

@terdon Thanks!

np