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PowerPC at least still has a living ecosystem, even from the bootloader level. GRUB can boot from an OpenFirmware system. There's also yaboot if you hate yourse
by Conan_Kudo 1mo ago
PowerPC at least still has a living ecosystem, even from the bootloader level. GRUB can boot from an OpenFirmware system. There's also yaboot if you hate yourself. ;)
I would personally love to see more Power Systems based projects. Everything is out there, just someone has to want to do something with it.
Fedora Linux even fully supports POWER8+ little-endian systems, and Fedora KDE offers a live ISO you can install on something like a Talos Workstation.
- initramfs 1mo agoThere have been some PowerISA implementations, https://libre-soc.org/openpower/ https://libre-soc.org/openpower/ although libre project had a major setback a few years ago: https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2024-September/006548.html https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2024-Sep...