Re: The "other distro" to offer ppc support!

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On 09/15/2009 05:50 PM, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Speaking about "the other distro". According to Distrowatch, Karmic should
offer ppc support, which was dropped with Feisty in April 2007:

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu

Talk about having ressources at hand! If I was Shuttleworth, I could think
of a few other projects I could use them on... I'm sure all Maccies
wouldn't be caught dead using Linux, will obey their Master and gladly
upgrade their hardware to Snow Leopard compliance within 6 months.


The PPC CPU is used in more systems that are NOT MAC than are.

The PS3 and xbox 360 run different versions of the PPC.

Many of the larger and small computer systems IBM sells are PPC based.

There are others, but that should give you an idea.

P.S. The are a lot of automobiles out there that could run a PPC based Linux if you were allowed to tap into the car computer system. :) I remember, possibly incorrectly, the first 3,000,000 PPC CPUs went into cars (starting in 1992). The auto industry basically paid for the further development of the PPC architecture.

From the WIKI article on PPC: "Almost half the world's automobiles have at least one PowerPC controller in them."

There are very good reasons to keep up with PPC deployments of Linux.

Have fun!

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