Vikings Store Relaunch
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Our store was reopened a few days ago after a 10-month break: https://store.vikings.net/
There are some classics to be found, for example the X200 (FSF RYF certified) and X230 laptops. There's now a stronger focus on openPOWER. Trisquel doesn't support it yet but I've heard that's planned, perhaps someone here can verify.
Anyway, it's great to be back and we're always worth checking out next to the other options like Libiquity, Technoethical or Minifree. There will also be some new items in the coming weeks, and we're are already in talks with the FSF to see if they can be RYF certified. Unfortunately the certification side of things usually takes some time, we want to be thorough (shout out to Craig T. at this point).
I don't want to be overly marketing-y here, so I'll leave it at that.
Make love, not war.
I just saw https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-openpower
It still would be great to have some form of confirmation from an "official" :-)
It's in the Trisquel 10 announcement, although they incorrectly call it "PowerPC" - https://trisquel.info/en/trisquel-10-nabia-release-announcement
"Power ISA is an evolution of the PowerPC ISA, created by the mergers of the core PowerPC ISA and the optional Book E for embedded applications"
This timeline shows the merger around 2006:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_architecture#/media/File:PowerISA-evolution.svg
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Hello all. Can someone explain in simple term what "Power Pc" is. I followed the links but don't understand what they are talking about. .
A processor executes basic instructions and different "families" of processors can execute different sets of instructions. There are other differences between those families, such as how many registers (the fastest accessible memory) are available and how large they are. Any high-level source code (what programmers write) can be translated to one instruction set or another and can seize the advantages of the "family" (for instance use all the registers that are available). Nowadays, the most common "family" is x86_64, also known as amd64. Trisquel 10 supports (what means "distributes packages that were built for") armhf too. ppc64 (64-bits PowerPC) is another family.
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Thank you Magic Banana. That was very clear and easily understood.
I was very happy to see this news on Mastodon. I was hoping to get a laptop in the next month or so with my tax refund to retire my T61 so it's always good to have competition for my money. Deciding between the extra software freedom; 9 cell battery; and AFFS screen of the X200 and the horsepower of the T440.
Isn't the xx40 series generally disliked as that's when Lenovo moved to more mobile processes, such that the xx30 line is ironically more powerful?
Or perhaps you made a typo and meant T400.
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