The PowerPC is a fantastic architecture but even if it is in devices in various domains, people who use and program them are often not aware of what makes it different. This is a technical review of its basic features and the specificities of its instruction set.

CRUX PPC - GNU/Linux on pSeries
IBM maintains strategic partnerships with both Red Hat and Novell for their enterprise Linux distributions. But what about Community distros?

Upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04

do-release-upgrade -d

in my case during the upgrade the OS freeze, then I have rebooted.

Installation tricks to install Ubuntu 9.04 on a PowerBook (12 or 17 inches)

Three is the magic number that follows two. It took us a little bit more time as the versions fall from mozilla.org. A Thunderbird community build for Linux PowerPC in version 3.0.3. I will tell you where to find the sources, offer a link to the binary and tell you where to find more information about the installation or how to compile it yourself.

The Arch Linux folks have happily announced that they now support Apple G5s,
with a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland. They also apparently have a much
simpler installer now as well.

PPCNUX will give away one Lime-Z9, a Motorola MPC 5121 based netbook, for the best proposal, howto or article related to or about PowerPC. Every registered user of PPCNUX is allowed to take part, excluding the PPCNUX Team (the people behind PPCNUX).

Three-oh-two, just for you. A Thunderbird community build for Linux PowerPC in version 3.0.2. I will tell you where to find the sources, offer a link to the binary and tell you where to find more information about the installation or how to compile it yourself.

Last week at ISSCC there were a couple of PowerPC-related announcements: first,
IBM announced a "wire-speed"
network processor, built around 16 4-thread 64-bit embedded PowerPC cores.

Just an update to 3.0.1. But I have done it, as the PowerBook G4 has to have to compile Firefox 3.6, I queued the thunderbird build. So just enjoy an up to date Application on your PowerPC. I will tell you where to find the sources, offer a link to the binary and tell you where to find more information about the installation or how to compile it yourself.