Roland wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:03 amAnd as also Casey has stopped to work with Fienix, we are now without any actively supported distro . The situation with PPC browsers is also catastrofal, they seem now to stop to work one after other with net banks and other necessary services.
Have we now reached the point where it is wisest to abandon X5000 as a Linux platform and jump to some better supported Linux architecture? But in any case I would not like to support Intel in any form with my pennies...!
Hi there! Sorry for the lack of communication lately. I've been working on the next release of Fienix for a few months now. Completely updated software stack, new Fienix-exclusive system tools and UX improvements, a bootable installer for PowerPC Macs to help increase our user-base, and an installer for our AmigaOnes to more easily copy Fienix to a hard disk. It's turning out really nicely and I think you'll love whats to come! I'll post a beta image in these forums when I get a little further along for anyone who wants to help test it.
Until then I'll still make "critical" updates to the current Fienix.
caseycullen wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:25 am
Hi there! Sorry for the lack of communication lately. I've been working on the next release of Fienix for a few months now. Completely updated software stack, new Fienix-exclusive system tools and UX improvements, a bootable installer for PowerPC Macs to help increase our user-base, and an installer for our AmigaOnes to more easily copy Fienix to a hard disk. It's turning out really nicely and I think you'll love whats to come! I'll post a beta image in these forums when I get a little further along for anyone who wants to help test it.
That's really great news!-) Thank you for continuing your invaluable work .
Will the new Fienix still be 32bit, or have you jumped to 64bit? Is there hope for the new Firefox version for it...?
After that you can compile the packages with the command "debuild -us -uc" in the directory "vlc-3.0.16".
You will find the debian packages that you have just compiled one folder above.
#Fienix
#Do not modify this file; add additional repositories to "sources.list.d".
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/repos/fienix/soar/ soar-di main
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/repos/fienix/soar/ soar-dh main
deb http://fienix.servehttp.com/repos/fienix/soar/ soar-cp main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports experimental main
deb [arch=all] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
xeno74 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:57 am I was able to recompile the new VLC 3.0.16 without AltiVec for the X5000 with the following commands today.
Great! Thank you very much .
I installed it on MintPPC, no problems there. It also starts normally, but if I select from the 'Media' menu 'Open File...' or most of the other items on that menu, VLC exits immediately. Also if I select from Preferences 'Input/codecs', it exits. This is exactly the same problem the previous VLC versions have... (yes, I did try to remove the old prefs files but it did not help)
Roland wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 7:10 pm
I installed it on MintPPC, no problems there. It also starts normally, but if I select from the 'Media' menu 'Open File...' or most of the other items on that menu, VLC exits immediately. Also if I select from Preferences 'Input/codecs', it exits. This is exactly the same problem the previous VLC versions have... (yes, I did try to remove the old prefs files but it did not help)
I have the same problem on MintPPC but it’s not an issue of VLC itself because this issue doesn’t exist on Fienix. I think there are some QT issues on MintPPC.
xeno74 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 3:22 amI have the same problem on MintPPC but it’s not an issue of VLC itself because this issue doesn’t exist on Fienix. I think there are some QT issues on MintPPC.
There was again a thick pile of updates for MintPPC (including QT related ones), but unfortunately they did not fix the issue with VLC :-/.