Perseverance rover uses same PowerPC chipset found in 1998 G3 iMac

Re:Perseverance rover uses same PowerPC chipset found in 199... by jvanderbot on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @11:53AM (#26317321)

Fun fact, a friend of mine bought and old mac, installed linux, and used it to do profiling for some code he wanted to fly. Great way to quickly find the problem areas!

Those old macs run Ubuntu just fine :)

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Re:Perseverance rover uses same PowerPC chipset found in 199... by timw4mail on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:30PM (#26318609)

An old version anyway. I think 2014.4 or around there was the last PPC version of ubuntu.

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Re:Perseverance rover uses same PowerPC chipset found in 199... by trasz on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:34PM (#26319427)

Up-to-date FreeBSD should run just fine, though.

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Re:Perseverance rover uses same PowerPC chipset found in 199... by boogies on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @07:51PM (#26323337)

Or more Ubuntu-like, Debian (in fact IIUC they just recently added support for ppc64, as it’s only in unstable while ppc64el is in stable).

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