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PowerPC distros

Posted Mar 9, 2010 16:54 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
In reply to: Fedora 13 Alpha released by alexbk
Parent article: Fedora 13 Alpha released

To the best of my knowledge, Ubuntu dropped PowerPC a while back... or at least I don't see it on their website for download.

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PowerPC distros

Posted Mar 9, 2010 18:32 UTC (Tue) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839) [Link]

It's a bit hidden, but they do have it all the way to the latest verison
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ
I tried the live-cd of 9.10 (something Fedora never provided actually) and it booted all the way to the desktop just fine. Not bad for an unsupported architecture.