On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:33:11AM -0500, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > Hey - so I picked up a couple of very pretty but backbreakingly-heavy Apple > G5s - one dual-core, the other dual-processor single core. I know these are > old machines (2005) and vastly inefficient compared to modern machines: > there are faster ARM SBCs. G5s make amazing room heaters when they are > busy. > > Distro support seems to have completely dropped away for these machines. > ppc64el is alive and well on IBM servers, but PowerMacs are big-endian. > > Anyone using ppc64 here? What distro would you recommend? Debian used to > have ppc64 support, but its last release is in LTS with no future releases > planned.
Debian had powerpc (32 bit user space but had 64 bit kernels). ppc64 (64 bit user space) has never been released as far as I remember. Debian still has it on ports.debian.org though and there are still people working on maintaining it. Both powerpc and ppc64 are on ports.debian.org. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
