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| Started by | Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> |
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| First post | 2022-10-01 08:36 +0200 |
| Last post | 2022-10-01 11:15 +0200 |
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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
| From | Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> |
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| Date | 2022-10-01 08:36 +0200 |
| Subject | Current operating systems for PowerPC |
| Message-ID | <th8n5k$191ar$7@dont-email.me> |
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)? -- kind regards Marco
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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
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| Date | 2022-10-01 08:01 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <2022Oct1.100148@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> |
| In reply to | #82 |
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
--
M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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| From | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
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| Date | 2022-10-01 08:32 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <2022Oct1.103222@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> |
| In reply to | #83 |
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes: >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: Following from there to <https://www.penguinppc.org/>, I see a link to a Debian 11 (i.e., current Debian stable) CD image. So even though it's not supported, it appears to be there. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
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| From | Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> |
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| Date | 2022-10-01 11:15 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <th90f7$191ar$14@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #83 |
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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