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Re: Current operating systems for PowerPC

From anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject Re: Current operating systems for PowerPC
Date 2022-10-01 08:01 +0000
Organization Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
Message-ID <2022Oct1.100148@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> (permalink)
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Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> writes:
>Hello,
>
>just for interest - I don't have such a CPU and I don't plan to buy one.
>Is there a current Linux distribution that supports the old PowerPC
>architecture (not ppc64)?

You mean 32-bit PowerPC (powerpc), not 64-bit PowerPC (ppc64), and not
little-endian 64-bit PowerPC (ppc64el), right.

It's always goot to look at Debian for such things.
<https://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/> says:

|The last supported release for 32-bit PowerPC is Debian 8 ("jessie").

Interestingly this page does not mention (big-endian) ppc64 at all,
but there used to be a ppc64 port and there still seems to be ongoing
work on ppc64 <https://wiki.debian.org/PPC64>.  Debian apparently also
still performs buildd-testing for ppc for Debian unstable:
<https://buildd.debian.org/status/architecture.php?a=powerpc&suite=sid>

- anton
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Current operating systems for PowerPC Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-10-01 08:36 +0200
  Re: Current operating systems for PowerPC anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-10-01 08:01 +0000
    Re: Current operating systems for PowerPC anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2022-10-01 08:32 +0000
    Re: Current operating systems for PowerPC Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-10-01 11:15 +0200

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