A variety of Linux distributions quietly give up support PowerPC __linux

Linux has always been very good at hardware support, many of the old and all because of the Linux can be supported by the Linux operating system. However, the author recently learned that due to the user community and the frequency of the relationship of multiple Linux distributions have begun to quietly give up support PowerPC. As a result, PowerPC users will lose support for the latest mainstream Linux (perhaps most of the PPC users are still using Apple's operating system without switching to Linux)

So far, three major Linux distributions have dropped support for PowerPC, and openSUSE recently abandoned support for the architecture, and Fedora will give up PowerPC support when the next release, Fedora 13, is officially released. Oddly, the openSUSE and Fedora development teams did not make any official statement about it, they just silently canceled support for the entire architecture, no announcements, no press releases, nothing. openSUSE 11.2, released three months ago, includes only the x86-64 and i386 versions, but the official download page still includes the PPC logo in the picture.

"Linux distributions are only market-oriented, and our use data shows that fewer than 1% of users have PPC," openSUSE said in an interview. And the problem is not whether PPC users are less than before, but it doesn't make sense to continue to devote resources to maintaining PPC. ”

Ubuntu is the only Linux operating system that officially announces that it does not support PowerPC.
Excerpt from: Cnbeta