Dust Off That iBook: Ubuntu MATE PowerPC Support Is Coming

OMG! Ubuntu have picked up on our recent news about adding PowerPC support to Ubuntu MATE. You can read the full article here.

I have purchased a 2nd hand iBook G4 from eBay so I can help test Ubuntu MATE on PowerPC :smiley:

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I currently only have 1 PPC Mac available for testing, but I am working on getting my PowerMac G5 working as that should be able to run PPC64 (I believe?) since it is a 64bit CPU. Will report back as soon as I have any updates on that machine.

For the G5 we’d need to build some packages (possibly) for that architecture. Or maybe modify the seeds so the PPC64 default packages are slightly different.

If you get the hardware going I try and make images for it, but this does rely on getting official to acccess to PPC64 build infrastructure.

Will do, the PPC version should run on it just fine, but I have used PPC64 on FreeBSD on it. I buy G5 towers fairly regularly so either way I should have a working one in the near future.

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I can get my hands on a G5 tower if you would like another tester. :relaxed: