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Contributor azrael on the Hardware support category

Bring back PowerPC as a supported arch  
Written by ssam the 11 Mar 08 at 21:56. Global category: Hardware support. New
7.04 dropped PowerPC as a supported architecture after a decision by the technical board. It is now only a community supported port. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCReview for more info.

There are still lots of PowerPC users and there is an active section on the forums. However the going is a bit tough. Gutsy required quite a few work arounds to boot the install CD, and there are plenty of long standing PowerPC specific bugs.

It would be great for powerpc to be supported again. Perhaps canonical could hire a PowerPC dev, or a ports dev.

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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #4296
Written by ssam the 11 Mar 08 at 21:56.
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