- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- June 24th, 2019
Canonical Releases Linux Kernel Security Patch for 64-Bit PowerPC Ubuntu Systems
Affects Ubuntu 19.04, 18.10, and 18.04 LTS
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- February 7th, 2017
Lubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus) PowerPC Daily Build ISOs to No Longer Be Produced
Lubuntu 16.04 LTS support for PowerPC systems ends in April 2019
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- December 22nd, 2016
Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus to Drop Support for 32-bit PowerPC (PPC) Architectures
Support is provided for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems, though
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- November 18th, 2016
openSUSE Leap 42.2 Linux Now Officially Available for PowerPC64le Architectures
The PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian arch is currently supported
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- October 31st, 2016
Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" to Drop Support for the PowerPC (PPC) Architecture
The GNU/Linux distribution should be released soon
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Marius Nestor
- February 25th, 2016
Lubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Beta 1 Released with PPC Support, Linux 4.4
The distro remains based on the LXDE desktop environment
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- January 30th, 2016
Lubuntu 16.04 LTS Alpha 2 Is Out, Now Runs on PowerPC Machines with LXQt
Lubuntu remains based on LXDE, GTK, and Linux kernel 4.3
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Marius Nestor
- June 3rd, 2015
Fedora 22 Linux Officially Released for IBM System z 64-Bit and PowerPC
Only for the Cloud and Server editions of Fedora 22
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Marius Nestor
- April 20th, 2015
Linux Kernel 3.4.107 LTS Is Now Available for Download
All users of the 3.4 kernel series are urged to upgrade
- Linux & Opensource Blog
- By Silviu Stahie
- March 3rd, 2015
Ubuntu MATE Is One of the Last Major Distros to Officially Support PowerPC
If you have an old Mac, you can use Ubuntu MATE
- Linux Distributions
- By Silviu Stahie
- December 18th, 2014
Ubuntu MATE 14.04.1 LTS to Get Official PowerPC Support, Dust Your Old Mac
A new architecture will be supported by Ubuntu MATE
- Linux
- By Silviu Stahie
- August 5th, 2013
Ubuntu Stops Supporting Apple's PowerPC-Based Systems
The Ubuntu for the PowerPC architecture was used in other systems as well
- Apple & Mac Blog
- By Filip Truta
- July 29th, 2013
VLC Player 2.1.0 Drops PPC Support, Now Requires Mac OS X 10.6
Starting with version 2.1.0, VLC will no longer work on PowerPC Macs
- Mac Games
- By Filip Truta
- July 1st, 2013
Download Minecraft 1.6.1 for Mac OS X – PPC Support Dropped
A warning will be displayed on PowerPC computers, and under Java 5
- Apple & Mac Blog
- By Filip Truta
- June 10th, 2013
Download VLC 2.0.7 OS X with PowerPC Fixes
2.0.7 is a small update that fixes some regression bugs in the 2.0.x branch
- Apple & Mac Blog
- By Filip Truta
- January 5th, 2013
Download Minecraft for PowerPC 1.4.6
Native launcher app for PowerPC users looking to play the popular building game
- Mac
- By Filip Truta
- September 17th, 2012
iTunes No Longer Supports PowerPC, Requires OS X 10.6.8
Software Updates no longer delivered automatically to old Mac OS X versions