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Idea #6837: PPC Support

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #4296: Bring back PowerPC as a supported arch.
Written by AndrewB the 11 Apr 08 at 13:06. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Re-Support all us PPC users out there!
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #6837
Written by AndrewB the 11 Apr 08 at 13:06.
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earobinson wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 14:28
This was dropped for a reason

zelut wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 14:40
@earobinson +1

gQuigs wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 14:42
I think they dropped commercial support, but you can still get an ISO. They dropped commercial support because maybe not enough people were buying it.
Will you?

wladston wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 15:45
+1
I wouldn't like to see my dear ppc machine unsupported, bad packed, or filled with bugs ....

slashdotaccount wrote on the 12 Apr 08 at 02:45
Just use Debian instead, it supports PPC fine.

azrael wrote on the 12 Apr 08 at 12:49
PPC is still supported by Ubuntu community. It's just not official. Packages are still packaged, bugs are still fixed.

grigio wrote on the 12 Apr 08 at 12:50
use Debian

brokencrystal wrote on the 13 Apr 08 at 23:30
"This was dropped for a reason"

@ earobinson: Name one.



"They dropped commercial support because maybe not enough people were buying it. Will you?"

@ gQuigs: I thought it was free...?



+1






hunt.topher wrote on the 18 Apr 08 at 01:29
"Use Debian" seems like a very unhelpful comment, since this entire site is about making Ubuntu as good as it can be. No one here has mentioned a real and valid reason why this idea should not be implemented, and this issue does affect users and potential users, so +1 from me.


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