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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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