Overview

As many PowerPC architecture owners have come to realise, the future of Ubuntu PowerPC support is in jeopardy. Canonical is taking stock at its process and looking to drop full support for the powerpc release and make it a community supported platform. The plan propose three implementations plans :

• PowerPC remains a fully supported platform
• PowerPC becomes a 'supported on the server only' platform (like Sparc)
• PowerPC becomes a community supported platform (like PA-RISC and Itanium)

See the PowerPC Review for full detail:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCReview

This page hopes to create awareness within the Ubuntu community about this issue and serve as a place for PowerPC and users of all architectures that are against this decision to voice their opinions. We are trying to be proactive in displaying our support for the PPC architecture, so don't bash or threaten or give ultimatums. Basically just put your name on the list

NOTE: there is already a large forum topic created under the PPC forums for commenting. Please do not flood this page with long posts/opinions.

PPC forum thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=298746

PowerPC Supporters

* Timbobsteve - Please don't drop support for PPC, my ibook loves Ubuntu!

* MicroJackson - Please keep the PPC rocking. Nothing nicer than a recent ubuntu install on a pismo!

* Ali - Please don't drop support for PPC/PPC64.

* ScottM - Powermac G5 dual 2Ghz is my main and only machine. Running Ubuntu.

* Ccinope - I use the PPC platform and would very much appreciate Ubuntu PPC being kept in active development.

* alphasubzero949 - I have two older 'books running Ubuntu. Please keep PowerPC supported!

* CafePinay - Please continue support for PPC. I've just started running Ubuntu on my old iBook, and want to keep seeing it develop.

* EuroCity - My PPC computers are an iBook G4 (1.42 GHz), a Power Mac G4 (upgraded to 1 GHz) and an iMac G3 (upgraded to 500 MHz): all work very well with Ubuntu (and Mac OS X, of course). If you keep the PPC distro running, certainly there will be a quite large user base in the future, also considering that Ubuntu is the most Mac-like Linux distro out there, sofar: thus, it would be great if you continued with full PPC support in Ubuntu!

* rm3m - I have an iMac and an iBook with Ubuntu. The iBook is a dual-boot system, and my "traveling office" for my computer support consulting. I can use it to demo Ubuntu to both Mac and PC users, especially the PC users whose Windows systems have been riddled with viruses and spyware. PPCs are going to be around for some time, and perhaps some other manufacturer will incorporate them into systems, maybe even IBM?

* Ulrik Sverdrup - I have another white Ibook G4 and use Ubuntu exclusively for my home and university use. The ibook works well under ubuntu ppc and I love that, in principle, all free software in the debianish sphere runs equally well on this old ppc as on a x86 machine. I'd like that to continue. I also like that everything works. Sleep works great and always has. Wireless works with the bcm43xx driver. Bluetooth works. The Ati radeon 9200+ mobility works fine with the free OSS drivers and I can run beryl (although I don't use it daily). So this machine is, thanks to ubuntu, a wonder of Free Software almost execlusively (if I wasn't a sucker for common media formats . Please keep this running, you don't realize how much we get for so little work.

* Mike Hore -- iMac G5. I love the PPC and will never buy Intel. As Apple are moving away from the PPC I'm starting to use Ubuntu as an alternative desktop system.

* nkbj -- Powermac G3 Beige. Please keep the support for ppc. I strongly prefer to have the same desktop all my systems (x86 and ppc).

* eidex -- running edgy on an ibook g4, please keep supporting the ppc platform!

* undercling9-99 -- Please don't waste the environment. The development of xubuntu for these imac G3's and G4's is doing so well. There is a massive overlooked potential to get Linux on all these 3-6 year old computers (mac or PC). So many people only need internet, word processing, email and some photo tools.

* ChrisLees -- I started with Ubuntu on PowerPC, to put new life into my iMac. This changed my life for the better, and now I am active in the Ubuntu community. Ubuntu-desktop for PPC is worth the effort. Besides, how can you expect companies to support a "2% market share" operating system when you don't support a 2% architecture?

* towsonu2003 -- I will buy sooner or later a cheap PPC and I'd like to have Ubuntu installed on it... PPC arch may grow as Apple takes its hands off of it and users start looking for other solutions. Also, it would be a shame to loose the userbase at http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=133

* JoshuaHenderson - I have a friend who uses the PPC version of Ubuntu, and it would be terrible if he wouldn't be able to update any more.

* SamTygier - Ubuntu works great on my ti powerbook g4. Linus Torvalds uses a G5, but probably not running ubuntu.

* KeywanNajafiTonekaboni - It's clear, that I can use Ubuntu on the iBook even as an Community Port, but it would have less importance as it already has and I guess the number of unresolved (even unreacted, unassigned, ignored?) bugs would increase

*BobPaul - Debian upstream supports PPC. That should be making Canonical's job easier. Keep the support at least as long as Debian does.

* Lane C - I have a last generation Powerbook and I am sure Apple will not support it nearly as long as I would like, I am hoping to convert it over to Ubuntu but not if support ceases. Please Keep support going for our year old technology, there are lots of us still!!

* Xavier77 -- running edgy on an ibook g4 12", please keep supporting the ppc platform!

* Jerome B., Belgium -- I'm running Ubuntu/x86 on a few systems, and Ubuntu/PPC is the retirement plan of my dualcore PowerMac G5. Pleaselet this machine have a second life when Apple drops support for it.

* AlwinGarside - PowerPC support is essential for PS3Compatability. If we can give the possibility to provide a completely supported Linux distro for the PS3, that could make it the leading PS3 Linux, giving us many more userbase.

* sastian -- PPC is essential here to as most of my machines are G4's and since apple is abandoning them the most noble solution is upgrading them to UBUNTU in the future.

* Justin Hartman, South Africa -- really sad to read the PowerPC review as I have only recently installed Edgy on my 1.33Ghz iBook G4 PPC. The fact that PPC is supported by Ubuntu was a huge driving force in migrating over to Linux from OSX and it's simply disappointing even the notion of discontinuing it. If I wanted to run Ubuntu off a silly PC I would have done so but reading this now I have to seriously reconsider my options.