On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 06:00:45PM +0000, Scott C. MacCallum via wrote: > Greetings, > > I'd like to port Guix to my Apple Aluminum PowerBook G4. I understand that this is likely never to be an offically supported architecture, but I'd like to learn the process for freedom and knowledge sake. I have a few Intel-based computers that could aid me in this process. Could someone knowledgeable in such things point me in the right direction? I personally have two G4 laptops and would love to have Guix as an almost-supported architecture too. The standard way to add a new architecture to Guix is to cross build boostrap binaries for it¹² and to shove a reference to them into (gnu packages commencement) in the guix sources. I have a non-working copy here³ that I play with occasionally. What are the specs of your laptop? I maxed out my ram to 1.5GB, which is under the recommended minimum of 2GB, but found it close enough for most tasks with Guix. I suggest popping over to guix-devel also to talk about bootstrapping, there are some people working on bootstrapping 64-bit PPC who would also probably be able to help. ¹ http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Porting.html#Porting ² http://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Preparing-to-Use-the-Bootstrap-Binaries.html#Building-the-Bootstrap-Binaries ³https://github.com/Millak/guix/tree/flashner/wip-powerpc -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted