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Re:“Removal of powerpc as a release architecture” by TheGorramBatman on Monday October 31, 2016 @01:25PM (#12838882)
Its not linux, but NetBSD still has its macppc port. And Gentoo.
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Re:“Removal of powerpc as a release architecture” by astrodust on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:18PM (#12839999)
Looks like Yellowdog Linux is discontinued, but at the time it was great: http://www.fixstars.com/en/technologies/linux/

One of the best features of that distribution was none of the standard pre-compiled root-kits would run on it, plus all the buffer-overflow attacks had to be customized for PowerPC, something few script kiddies had the capability of doing. It made for a surprisingly resilient system at the time.

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Re:“Removal of powerpc as a release architecture” by bandrami on Monday October 31, 2016 @01:28PM (#12838916)
OpenBSD does too
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