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Re: Current operating systems for PowerPC

From Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject Re: Current operating systems for PowerPC
Date 2022-10-01 11:15 +0200
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Am 01.10.2022 um 08:01:48 Uhr schrieb Anton Ertl:

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

Yes, powerpc, used in older IBM systems and Macs.

> 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").

EoL
 
> 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>

It seems that only a few packages are available for it, others are not:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/vim

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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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