Projects tagged ‘ppc64’

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an ... [More] operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. [Less]

Gentoo is a free operating system based on either Linux or FreeBSD that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a ... [More] top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. [Less]

Fedora is a free operating system that offers the best combination of stable and cutting-edge software that exists in the free software world.

The HelenOS project is an effort to develop a complete and usable modern operating system, yet offering room for experimenting and research. HelenOS uses its own microkernel written from scratch and ... [More] supports SMP, multitasking and multithreading on both 32-bit and 64-bit, little-endian and big-endian processor architectures, among which are AMD64/EM64T (x86-64), ARM, IA-32, IA-64 (Itanium), 32-bit MIPS, 32-bit PowerPC, SPARC V9 and Xen 3.0. Thanks to the relatively high number of supported architectures and suitable design, HelenOS is extremely-well portable. [Less]

PM2 is a low level generic runtime system which integrates multithreading management (Marcel) and a high performance multi-cluster communication library (Madeleine).

Mac-on-Linux (MOL) provides a virtual machine for running MacOS, MacOSX and Linux (in progress) on your PowerPC machine.

SheepShaver is a MacOS run-time environment for BeOS and Linux that allows you to run classic MacOS applications inside the BeOS/Linux multitasking environment. This means that both BeOS/Linux and ... [More] MacOS applications can run at the same time (usually in a window on the BeOS/Linux desktop) and data can be exchanged between them. If you are using a PowerPC-based system, applications will run at native speed (i.e. with no emulation involved). There is also a built-in PowerPC emulator for non-PowerPC systems. [Less]

A free (LGPL) library with hand-optimized replacement routines for GLIBC, such as memcpy(), strlen(), etc. These routines have been written specifically to take advantage of the AltiVec unit ... [More] (a.k.a Velocity Engine or VMX). See freevec project page (http://www.freevec.org). [Less]