Fedora 17 available for ARM and PowerPC

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Three weeks after the arrival of Fedora 17 distribution developers have published versions of this distribution for both PowerPC and ARM architectures .

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ARM image is available precompiled for various platforms as Trimslice, BeagleBoard xM, Pandaboard, or Kirkwood Plugs.

also offer a basic image with a file system “bare” without any kernel or X package, plus another with a base install Xfce then those who want to add your custom kernel for ARM platform. At the moment there are no images prepared for Raspberry Pi , but it is hoped that these images are available on short notice.

As noted in The H Open, images of Fedora 17 for PPC are available from last week, and allow holders machines based on these micros (for example, the ancient Mac) harness the power of this Linux distribution.

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Ubuntu 4.12 for PowerPC, new life for your old Mac

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of the pre-Intel probably time you bear suffering a lack of options when installing operating systems last batch. Apple stopped offering its operating system for some time (Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard that left bracket), but Linux distributions like Ubuntu themselves who continue to support PowerPC processors of the old Mac .

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for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, says that as this person is available for PowerPC platforms, making further that all work pretty well , no driver issues.

Installation is very simple, because as stated in the original article from Mac OS X 10.4.6 is possible to resize partitions dynamically to allocate space for Ubuntu. Performance tests appear satisfactory, judging by the experience of that user, so if you want, and you can download the image of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu Lubuntu or from this download page for PowerPC Ubunu wiki .

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