Ubuntu PowerPC 64-bit Little-endian (ppc64el)

• Ubuntu Server for IBM POWER (ppc64el) is available since 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) release and newer.

Main Documents

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Recommendations

• Third Party applications

• Using Ubuntu as a KVM hypervisor

• Ubuntu on OpenPower Hardware

• Creating a sbuild on ppc64el

Supported versions

Hypervisor support per version

For more details see LTSEnablementStack.

^* Standard Release has support for only 9 month

Reference

• PowerLinux blog

• G+ PowerLinux Community

• Linux on Power Community

• Free ppc64el access

• References Documents

• Ubuntu 14.04 as a Hypervisor

• Ubuntu Early Releases

• Docker on Ubuntu/ppc64el

• LXD

• Enabling PPA for ppc64el

• Petitboot documentation

• Petitboot Mailing List

• Supported machines

• Installation Instructions for Software RAID

• Support for Multipath devices

• Deploying Nova Compute on PowerKVM with Juju Charms

Download

• 21.10 daily build

• 20.04 daily build

• 18.04 daily build

  • Netboot

• 16.04 daily build

  • Netboot