The PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian arch is currently supported

Nov 18, 2016 03:08 GMT  ·  By

Just one day after the official release of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system, Michel Normand from the openSUSE Project was proud to announce on November 17, 2016, the availability of the PowerPC port.

Yes, you're reading that right, while many other popular GNU/Linux distributions are in discussions to deprecate support for the PowerPC (PPC) hardware architecture, including Debian Project and Canonical for their upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" and Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) releases, it looks like OpenSuSE still supports it.

In his very brief mailing list announcement, the openSUSE developer informs the community that they can now download the official ISO images for PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian architectures of the openSUSE Leap 42.2 operating system from http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/leap/42.2-Current/iso/.

There, you'll find both installation DVD and NET images, the latter being used for installing openSUSE Leap over the network. "Note that the https://software.opensuse.org/422/en page limits its pointers to only one architecture," has said Michel Normand to inform users that they won't be able to download the PPC ISOs from that page.

openSUSE Leap 42.2 brings numerous up-to-date components and features

If you haven't read our openSUSE Leap 42.2 announcement story yet, we'd like to tell you that the operating system introduces numerous up-to-date components, among which we can mention the KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environment, a kernel from the long-term supported Linux 4.4 series, and many SUSE Enterprise Linux 12 SP2 goodies.

In related news, the openSUSE Project announced on the day of November 17, 2016, that starting the 16th of January 2017, they will no longer offer security and software updates for the openSUSE 13.2 operating system. As a consequence, users are urged to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 42.2 or move to openSUSE Tumbleweed.