[ros-dev] Free PPC Test Systems

[Alex Ionescu]

Hi,

I've been recently talking to some contacts and heard of a very 
FOSS-friendly place where we might be able to get some PPC hardware for 
Art to test his PPC port on. They are Pegasos PPC, and they supply 
complete systems on a varity of CPU architectures. There's full Open 
Firmware support so it's pretty much like developing on an Apple. I've 
tried to contact Apple (and others amongst us have tried as well) but we 
haven't had much luck. Pegasos has a reputation for being much 
friendlier (and also much cheaper, if you want to buy one), so I suggest 
we give them a try and send them an e-mail about our project and how 
much we'd love their help (and I'm sure it's a good idea to suggest we'd 
put up their name on our website under a "Thank You" [by the way, we 
also have to thank a bunch of other companies that have donated 
equipment or software, afaik]).

Here's their site:
http://www.pegasosppc.com/

I can contact them myself, but I was thinking maybe it's better if 
Steven/Art/Jason (all three) handle it, since they are official Board 
Members plus Art is the one who will be using it.

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu