Lars Weiler

About a month ago, roger55 asked in the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for Release Testers for the upcoming 2006.1 release. The response was… not so good for PowerPC. Four persons responded, but only two of them have supported hardware. Sorry, but RS/6000 isn't officially supported by Gentoo, as I couldn't manage to create a bootable CD. And all machines of this series are quite differently. And although the PowerMac 7200 is Apple's first machine with PCI instead of NuBus, so Gentoo might work, but you will not really want to use Gentoo on that machine.

So, what do I need then?

I want testers for

• iBook G3/G4
• PowerBook Pismo/TiBook/AlBook
• iMac G3/G4
• eMac
• MacMini G4
• PowerMac G3/G4/SMP

What should the testers do?

• Start the InstallCD
• Do a usual stage3 installation and verify the steps in the handbook
• Do a usual GRP installation with the bin-packages provided and verify the steps in the handbook

When you want to help out, please contact roger55(at)gentoo.org. He will provide you links to our current testing material.

At the upcoming saturday, July 29th, there will be a Gentoo User Meeting again in Cologne. This time not in the area around, but really in Cologne!

It will take place in the CCC's Clubroom in Köln-Ehrenfeld, as several members of the CCC are also Gentoo users. So we just open the doors for everyone else who is interested in Gentoo.

Have a look at this forums post for more information.