The esteemed Linux Weekly News has posted an article about the state
of Linux distributions on PowerPC systems. They start by recapping the

LSI and Wind River have announced a "multi-year strategic partnership" for Wind River Linux on LSI's Axxia Communication Processors (ACP) product line. The ACP

CRUX PPC 2.6 ports and pre-compiled for the IcedTea Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) and OpenOffice suite are now updated. They are available for ppc and ppc64.

At FTF this week, Freescale announced their first 64-bit core, the e5500. It will be used in the P5010 and P5020 SoCs, both members of the "P5" family of their QorIQ brand.

Why? There is a problem with the optical drive and the PowerPC port of Ubuntu 10.04. Perhaps it is related to an incomplete user rights management. To solve this, I compiled the Linux Kernel 2.6.34 from the sources, just to find out if it is related to the official Ubuntu Kernel.

Are now available two archives with the full CRUX PPC toolchain (current snapshot: 06 June 2010) already compiled in a clean environment and ready to be used for a quick update.

The new version of the quick PPC OS runs on Mac mini, Pegasos 1 & 2, Efika and now also adds support for eMacs. The Morphos team celebrates the 2-year anniversary of the v2.x line by offering a special registration deal.

Joe Brockmeier reminds us that Fedora 13 will not ship an official PowerPC version.

Sony upset a vocal group of customers when it recently removed the ability to run Linux on the PlayStation 3 with dubious justification.

Freescale has announced a new partnership for Linux enablement of its QorIQ and PowerQUICC networking processors.