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Not everything is bug-free, so you might want to the check also [[Fixes in Progress]] about the state of their upstreaming.
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Not everything is bug-free, so you might want to the check also [[Fixes in Progress]] about the state of their upstreaming. ppc64 and ppc64le refer to [[big-endian]] and [[little-endian]], respectively; ppc refers to 32-bit.
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== GNU/Linux ==
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== Linux ==
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{| class="wikitable"
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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|Distribution
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!Distribution
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|Version
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!Version
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|Architecture
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!Architecture
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|Reported by
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!Reported by
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|Notes
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!Notes
 
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|[https://www.adelielinux.org/ Adélie]
 
|[https://www.adelielinux.org/ Adélie]
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|Needs the easy-kernel-power8 package instead of easy-kernel.  KDE 5 is stable.
 
|Needs the easy-kernel-power8 package instead of easy-kernel.  KDE 5 is stable.
 
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|-
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|[https://www.centos.org/ CentOS]
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|rowspan="4"|[https://almalinux.org/ Alma]
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|8.5
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:Xilinder|Xilinder]]
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|[https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,345.msg2769.html#msg2769 Works]
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|-
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|8.8
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:maninap|maninap]]
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| Works OOTB. Insured /boot is ext4. AST GUI works for install and fast enough for sysadmin tasks. Survived kernel patching.
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|-
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|8.9
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:maninap|maninap]]
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| Convert to Alma script worked for CentOS 8 Stream 4/2024. Watch for package downgrades and llvm support, minor tweaks.
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|-
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|9.3
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:maninap|maninap]]
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| AST GUI works for install. Firmware warning for xfs /boot. GUI installer has no option to create PREeP partition. Tested /boot as ext4, but only boots rescue kernel.
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|-
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|[https://alpinelinux.org/ Alpine]
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|3.11.5
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:Tle|Tle]]
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|Needs internet connection for the setup-alpine to fetch grub-ieee1275 and sfdisk. Let's hope the next version would include these two packages in the ISO. I have lodged a [https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/issues/11384 request]
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|-
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|[https://en.altlinux.org/ ALT]
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|10.0
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Unable to install. The image is not displayed in Petitboot.
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|-
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|[https://aosc.io/ AOSC OS]
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|RR
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Not tested yet.
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|-
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|[https://archlinuxpower.org/ Arch]
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|RR
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Not tested yet.
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|-
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|[https://ataraxialinux.org/ Ataraxia]
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|201101
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Not tested yet.
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|-
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|rowspan="2"|[https://bedrocklinux.org/ Bedrock]
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|rowspan="2"|0.7.28
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|ppc64
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|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Not tested yet.
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|-
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Installed PyTorch on a Debian Bookworm VM, distro-morphed it to Bedrock, installed a Gentoo stratum, installed Gentoo's Electron package, Gentoo's Electron was able to use Debian's PyTorch without issues.
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|-
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|rowspan="2"|[https://www.centos.org/ CentOS]
 
|7.7
 
|7.7
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU from: [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU| snippets for the AST GPU]]
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|-
 +
 
 +
|8
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:maninap|maninap]]
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|Works OOTB. In place upgrade from CentOS 7 worked (not officially supported). End Of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2021.
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|-
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|rowspan="2"| [https://www.centos.org/ CentOS Stream]
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|8
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:maninap|maninap]]
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|Works OOTB. Converted from CentOS 8. Cyclical patch regressions impact AST GPU/Optical drives. End Of Life (EOL) on May 31st, 2024.
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|-
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|9
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:maninap|maninap]]
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|10/2023 installer. Rescue kernel works, but others and kernel patching breaks. AST GPU works for install process.  GUI installer has no option to create PREeP partition. In place upgrade from CentOS 8 Stream packages do not exist/removed.
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|-
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|[https://chimera-linux.org/ Chimera]
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|20220912
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Works.
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|-
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|[https://cclinux.org/ Circle]
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|8.6
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Not tested yet.
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|-
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|rowspan="10"|[https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ Debian]
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|12 (2022-03-21 weekly DVD ISO)
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Seems to work fine with XFCE inside KVM (machine type = pseries).
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|-
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|11.1.0 (netinst)
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:Jas|Jas]]
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|Installs and works out of box with no changes.  Installer is on serial port, VGA is blank
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([[Operating_System_Specific_Workarounds/Debian#Bullseye|workaround]]).  Works fine as a KVM host via virt-manager and a Debian 11 guest VM.
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|-
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|11 (2021-03-29 weekly DVD ISO)
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Seems to work fine with XFCE inside KVM (machine type = pseries).
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|-
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|11/Sid (2021-02-02 [https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/ snapshot])
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|ppc64
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|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Seems to work fine with XFCE inside KVM (machine type = pseries).  Note that even though this ISO is labeled "10.0.0" in the filename, it is actually Sid, not Buster.
 
|-
 
|-
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|rowspan="5"|[https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ Debian]
 
 
|10 (2018-05-28 weekly DVD ISO)
 
|10 (2018-05-28 weekly DVD ISO)
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|Seems to work fine.  KDE crashes occasionally, but that might be unrelated to running it on POWER9.  Works fine as a KVM host via virt-manager (tested with Debian 10 as the guest).  Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint.
 
|Seems to work fine.  KDE crashes occasionally, but that might be unrelated to running it on POWER9.  Works fine as a KVM host via virt-manager (tested with Debian 10 as the guest).  Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint.
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|-
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|[https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/10.0/ 10.0] (ISO is dated 2018-05-18)
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|ppc64
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|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|ISO fails to boot in virt-manager (KVM; machine type = pseries).
 
|-
 
|-
 
|10
 
|10
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|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU from: [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU| snippets for the AST GPU]]
 
|-
 
|-
 
|9.5.0
 
|9.5.0
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|ppc64le (inside KVM; machine type = pseries)
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|ppc64le
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Seems to work fine with KDE.  Default version of Linux works fine.  Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint.  However, running <code>dpkg-query -W -f='${Section}\t${Package}\n' &#124; grep ^contrib</code> (see [https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/111102 this Stack Exchange answer]) suggests that no actual packages from the contrib repos are installed by default, so you should be able to disable the contrib repos after installation without ever being exposed to contrib-packaged software.
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|Seems to work fine with KDE inside KVM (machine type = pseries).  Default version of Linux works fine.  Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint.  However, running <code>dpkg-query -W -f='${Section}\t${Package}\n' &#124; grep ^contrib</code> (see [https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/111102 this Stack Exchange answer]) suggests that no actual packages from the contrib repos are installed by default, so you should be able to disable the contrib repos after installation without ever being exposed to contrib-packaged software.
 
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|-
 
|9
 
|9
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|Requires 4.16 or newer kernel. Installed Debian testing net install, set apt sources to Debian stable and downgraded, keeping 4.16 kernel. Most VMs failed to boot before updating qemu to 2.12.0.
 
|Requires 4.16 or newer kernel. Installed Debian testing net install, set apt sources to Debian stable and downgraded, keeping 4.16 kernel. Most VMs failed to boot before updating qemu to 2.12.0.
 
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|-
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|rowspan="4"|[https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/ Fedora]
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|[https://www.devuan.org/ Devuan]
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|4.0
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
 +
|Works
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|-
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|rowspan="16"|[https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/ Fedora]
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|40
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|ppc64le
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|Tle
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|Works fine. Mutter performance is quite smooth.
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|-
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|39
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|ppc64le
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|Tle
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|Works just fine.
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|-
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|38
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|ppc64le
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|DKnoto
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|Works just fine, see [https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,445.msg3600.html review on forum].
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|-
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|37
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|ppc64le
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|ClassicHasClass
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|[https://www.talospace.com/2022/12/fedora-37-mini-review-on-blackbird-and.html Review at Talospace.]
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|-
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|37 Beta
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:jbowen|jbowen]]
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|"Headless" server install works well, as does (GNOME) Workstation (graphics tested with a Sapphire Radeon HD5450).
 +
|-
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|36
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|ppc64le
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|ClassicHasClass
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|[https://www.talospace.com/2022/06/fedora-36-mini-mini-review-on-blackbird.html Review at Talospace.]
 +
|-
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|35
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|ppc64le
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|ClassicHasClass
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|[https://www.talospace.com/2021/11/fedora-35-mini-review-on-blackbird-and.html Review at Talospace.]
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|-
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|34
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|ppc64le
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|ClassicHasClass
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|[https://www.talospace.com/2021/05/fedora-34-mini-review-on-blackbird-and.html Review at Talospace.]
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|-
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|rowspan="2"|33
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|rowspan="2"|ppc64le
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|[[User:Tle|Tle]]
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|Server and Workstation variant works perfectly!
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|-
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|ClassicHasClass
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|[https://www.talospace.com/2020/11/fedora-33-mini-review-on-blackbird-and.html Review at Talospace.]
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|-
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|rowspan="2"|32
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|rowspan="2"|ppc64le
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|[[User:Tle|Tle]]
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|Server variant works perfectly!
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The Workstation Live variant failed to load kernel image at Petitboot prompt, the workaround is to change kernel/initrd paths before booting to
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be /ppc/ppc64/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} instead of /ppc/ppc
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|-
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|ClassicHasClass
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|[https://www.talospace.com/2020/05/fedora-32-mini-review-on-blackbird-and.html Review at Talospace.]
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|-
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|31
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Works. I only needed the [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU| snippets for the AST GPU]]. When installing GNOME (workstation-product-environment) you have to do [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Wayland_.28GNOME.29_freeze_after_boot_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU|this modification]]
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|30
 
|30
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU from: [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU| snippets for the AST GPU]]
 
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|-
 
|rowspan="3"|28
 
|rowspan="3"|28
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|rowspan="2"|ppc64le
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|ppc64le
 
|[[User:Sharkcz|Sharkcz]]
 
|[[User:Sharkcz|Sharkcz]]
 
|only bare metal verified for now, you might want to enable [[User:Sharkcz|SharkCZ]]'s COPR [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sharkcz/talos/ repo] for not-yet-upstreamed updates
 
|only bare metal verified for now, you might want to enable [[User:Sharkcz|SharkCZ]]'s COPR [https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sharkcz/talos/ repo] for not-yet-upstreamed updates
 
|-
 
|-
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|ppc64le
 
|[[User:nashimus|nashimus]]
 
|[[User:nashimus|nashimus]]
 
|May need to manually specify inst.stage2, during install. [https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cb4b63c0-e358-474c-8b04-391c3a279d5a/entry/Baremetal_RHEL_Redhat_Installation_with_OPAL?lang=en Workaround] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577587 Bug]
 
|May need to manually specify inst.stage2, during install. [https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cb4b63c0-e358-474c-8b04-391c3a279d5a/entry/Baremetal_RHEL_Redhat_Installation_with_OPAL?lang=en Workaround] [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1577587 Bug]
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|discontinued in Fedora 29
 
|discontinued in Fedora 29
 
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|-
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|rowspan="2"|[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC64 Gentoo]
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|rowspan="2|[https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC64 Gentoo]
 
| n/a
 
| n/a
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:Luke-jr|luke-jr]]
 
|[[User:Luke-jr|luke-jr]]
 
|Once installed, works fine.
 
|Once installed, works fine.
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GNOME, Plasma and other desktops are supported.
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Ships working firefox, qtwebengine:5. 
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[https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/ppc/autobuilds/current-install-ppc64le-minimal/ latest install iso supporting both 4k and 64k pagesize kernels]
 
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|-
 
|17.0
 
|17.0
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|[[User:MarcusC|MarcusC]]
 
|[[User:MarcusC|MarcusC]]
 
|XFCE4 and virt-manager verified
 
|XFCE4 and virt-manager verified
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|[https://www.glasnost.org/ Glasnost]
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|2021.10-01
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Not tested yet.
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|-
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|[http://www.w5j6stm77zs6652pgsij4awcjeel3eco7kvipheu6mtr623eyyehj4yd.onion/ Kicksecure] ([https://www.kicksecure.com/ clearnet link])
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|16
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Appears to work fine with XFCE in a VM when the [[Kicksecure]] instructions are followed.  Haven't tried CLI or host.
 
|-
 
|-
 
|rowspan="2"|[https://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]
 
|rowspan="2"|[https://www.opensuse.org/ openSUSE]
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|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU from: [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU| snippets for the AST GPU]]
 
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|-
 
|Tumbleweed 20190805
 
|Tumbleweed 20190805
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|Install via serial console (over ssh) and connect HDMI to dedicated GPU. Use Xorg config from [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Step_2:_Create_Xorg_Configuration_Snippet]]. radeonsi is missing, as Mesa-dri is not build for ppc64le. Workaround: install from [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le] repo.
 
|Install via serial console (over ssh) and connect HDMI to dedicated GPU. Use Xorg config from [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Step_2:_Create_Xorg_Configuration_Snippet]]. radeonsi is missing, as Mesa-dri is not build for ppc64le. Workaround: install from [https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le] repo.
 
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|-
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|rowspan="3"|[https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power Ubuntu Server]
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|[https://mirror.grapentin.org/parabola-ports/powerpc64le/ Parabola]
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|15-Apr-2021
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Not tested yet.
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|-
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|[https://www.powerel.org/ PowerEL]
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|7
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Unable to install. The image is not displayed in Petitboot.
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|-
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|[https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux RHEL]
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|9
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:Tle|Tle]]
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|[https://forums.raptorcs.com/index.php/topic,365.msg2944.html#msg2944 Works]
 +
|-
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|[https://www.riscyslack.org/ Riscy Slack (Slackware)]
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|2020-11-17
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User: MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU| snippets for the AST GPU]]
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|-
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|rowspan="2"| [https://rockylinux.org/ Rocky]
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|9.0
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
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||Not tested yet.
 +
|-
 +
|9.2
 +
|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:maninap|maninap]]
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||05/2023 installer. Rescue kernel works, but others and kernel patching breaks. AST GPU works for install process. GUI installer has no option to create PREeP partition. Convert to Rocky script appears to only be x86 right now.
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|-
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|[http://t2sde.org/ T2 SDE]
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|21.5
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|ppc64le
 +
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
 +
|Not tested yet.
 +
|-
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|[https://builds.trisquel.org/debian-installer-images/ Trisquel]
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|11
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|ppc64le
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|Simon Josefsson
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|[https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/09/01/trisquel-on-ppc64el-talos-ii/ Review by Simon.]
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|-
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|rowspan="5"|[https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/power Ubuntu Server]
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|22.04 LTS
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:Manatails|manatails]]
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|Installs and works out of box with no changes.
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|-
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|20.04 LTS
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:Jas|Jas]]
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|Installs and works out of box with no changes.
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|-
 
|19.10 (kernel 5.3.x)
 
|19.10 (kernel 5.3.x)
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:FlyingBlackbird|FlyingBlackbird]]
 
|[[User:FlyingBlackbird|FlyingBlackbird]]
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|Works OOTB with Gnome (installed via <code>tasksel</code>). I only needed to configure Xorg for a FullHD resolution of the AST GPU as described in [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Display_stuck_at_default_low_resolution_with_AST_HDMI_GPU]]. Note that NVMe SSDs may not work due to a kernel bug fixed in 5.4 but there is a work-around, see [[POWER9 Hardware Compatibility List/PCIe Devices#NVMe_Drives]]
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|Works OOTB with GNOME (installed via <code>sudo tasksel</code> choosing ''Ubuntu Desktop'') and a single SATA HDD. I only needed to configure Xorg for a FullHD resolution of the AST GPU as described in [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Display_stuck_at_default_low_resolution_with_AST_HDMI_GPU]]. Note that NVMe SSDs may crash when a manual or scheduled <code>discard</code> ("trim") is started (due to a kernel bug fixed in 5.4 but there is a work-around, see [[POWER9 Hardware Compatibility List/PCIe Devices#NVMe_Drives]]. So far a combination of a NVMe SSD and SATA HDD makes troubles if both drives are used for OS installation targets with booting from HDD causes ATA error messages (I am investigating this, see the [[User:FlyingBlackbird|up-to-date status of my system configuration]]).
 
|-
 
|-
 
|19.04
 
|19.04
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
 
|[[User:MPC7500|MPC7500]]
−
|Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU from: [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU]]
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|Works OOTB. I only needed the [[Troubleshooting/GPU#Xorg_crashes_or_is_laggy_with_the_AST_VGA_GPU| snippets for the AST GPU]]
 
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|18.10
 
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|Installs and works out of box with no changes, Xfce4.
 
|Installs and works out of box with no changes, Xfce4.
 
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|[https://voidlinux-ppc.org Void Linux for Power Architecture]
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|rowspan="3"|[https://voidlinux-ppc.org Void Linux for Power Architecture]
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|n/a
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|rowspan="3"|n/a
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|ppc64le/ppc64/ppc
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:q66|q66]]
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|rowspan="3"|[[User:q66|q66]]
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|Staging fork of Void Linux (custom binary repository and infrastructure, merging changes back upstream), fully functional, both endians, glibc or musl, 64-bit or 32-bit (32-bit works on Talos with 64-bit kernel or in a VM)
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|rowspan="3"|Staging fork of Void Linux (custom binary repository and infrastructure, merging changes back upstream), fully functional, both endians, glibc or musl, 64-bit or 32-bit (32-bit works on Talos with 64-bit kernel or in a VM).
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UPDATE: Void Linux for Power ISA has been discontinued in January 2023 in favor of Chimera Linux. -[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|ppc
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|rowspan="5"|[http://dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/ Whonix] ([https://www.whonix.org/ clearnet link])
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|16
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Appears to work fine with XFCE (both Gateway and Workstation) when the [[Whonix]] instructions are followed.  Haven't tried CLI.
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|15 (Morphed from Sid)
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|ppc64
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|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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|Dependency conflicts prevent distro-morphing from Debian Sid to Whonix.  I'm working on getting these fixed.
 
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|-
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|rowspan="3"|[http://dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onion/ Whonix] ([https://www.whonix.org/ clearnet link])
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|15 (Morphed from Buster)
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|15
 
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|Appears to work fine with KDE (both Gateway and Workstation) when the [[Whonix]] instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10.  Haven't tried XFCE and CLI.
 
|Appears to work fine with KDE (both Gateway and Workstation) when the [[Whonix]] instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10.  Haven't tried XFCE and CLI.
 
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|14
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|rowspan="2"|14
 
|ppc64le
 
|ppc64le
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|Appears to work fine when the [[Whonix]] instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10.  (UPDATE: Whonix 14 is no longer recommended by upstream for KVM; use Whonix 15 instead.)
 
|Appears to work fine when the [[Whonix]] instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10.  (UPDATE: Whonix 14 is no longer recommended by upstream for KVM; use Whonix 15 instead.)
 
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|14
 
 
|amd64
 
|amd64
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
 
|[[User:JeremyRand|JeremyRand]]
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== BSDs ==
 
== BSDs ==
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{| class="wikitable"
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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|Distribution
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!Distribution
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|Version
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!Version
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|Architecture
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|Reported by
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|rowspan="2"|[https://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
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|rowspan="3"|[https://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD]
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|12.0
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|13.1-RELEASE
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|ppc64le
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|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
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|The most recent release, 13.0-RELEASE has initial ppc64le support
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|13.1-RELEASE
 
|ppc64
 
|ppc64
 
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
 
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
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|Contains initial POWER9 support
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|The most recent release
 
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|13-CURRENT
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|12.0-RELEASE
 
|ppc64
 
|ppc64
 
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
 
|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
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|Ongoing development activity, better than releases for the time being
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|Contains initial POWER9 support
 
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|[https://github.com/POWER9BSD/ POWER9BSD]
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|[https://www.openbsd.org/powerpc64.html OpenBSD]
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|13-CURRENT
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|7.3
 
|ppc64
 
|ppc64
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|[[User:kev009|kev009]]
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|[[User:philipp|philipp]]
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|Advance POWER9 features for FreeBSD like Radix MMU, amdgpu etc
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| SMT not supported. Uses serial for output during installation. Otherwise installs and works fine.
 
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|[https://www.openbsd.org/powerpc64.html OpenBSD]
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|6.8
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|ppc64
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|[[User:DanielPocock|DanielPocock]]
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|Official support since OpenBSD 6.8
 
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===Ports in progress===
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==Ports in progress==
 
Rapid progress is being made on these ports by members of the community.
 
Rapid progress is being made on these ports by members of the community.
  
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* [https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/new-supported-platform-powerpc64le-linux/ GNU Guix System] ([[User:Isengaara|Isengaara]] and lle-bout (email: lle-bout at zaclys dot net))
 
* NixOS (@crystalgamma:matrix.org on Matrix)
 
* NixOS (@crystalgamma:matrix.org on Matrix)
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* GuixSD ([[User:Isengaara|Isengaara]])
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* [https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4318 Qubes OS]
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* [https://spectrum-os.org/design.html Spectrum]
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== Rejected Ports ==
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* [https://issues.hyperbola.info/index.php?do=details&task_id=1336 Hyperbola]
  
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==
  
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* [http://bgafc.t-hosting.hu/oses4ppc.php Operating Systems for PowerPC] PPC32be / PPC64be / PPC64le
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* [http://oscomp.hu/bgafc/oses4ppc.php Operating Systems for PowerPC] PPC32 / PPC64 / PPC64le
  
 
[[Category:Compatibility List]]
 
[[Category:Compatibility List]]

Revision as of 05:15, 29 April 2024

Not everything is bug-free, so you might want to the check also Fixes in Progress about the state of their upstreaming. ppc64 and ppc64le refer to big-endian and little-endian, respectively; ppc refers to 32-bit.

Linux

Distribution Version Architecture Reported by Notes
Adélie 1.0-beta1 ppc64 awilfox Needs the easy-kernel-power8 package instead of easy-kernel. KDE 5 is stable.
Alma 8.5 ppc64le Xilinder Works
8.8 ppc64le maninap Works OOTB. Insured /boot is ext4. AST GUI works for install and fast enough for sysadmin tasks. Survived kernel patching.
8.9 ppc64le maninap Convert to Alma script worked for CentOS 8 Stream 4/2024. Watch for package downgrades and llvm support, minor tweaks.
9.3 ppc64le maninap AST GUI works for install. Firmware warning for xfs /boot. GUI installer has no option to create PREeP partition. Tested /boot as ext4, but only boots rescue kernel.
Alpine 3.11.5 ppc64le Tle Needs internet connection for the setup-alpine to fetch grub-ieee1275 and sfdisk. Let's hope the next version would include these two packages in the ISO. I have lodged a request
ALT 10.0 ppc64le MPC7500 Unable to install. The image is not displayed in Petitboot.
AOSC OS RR ppc64le MPC7500 Not tested yet.
Arch RR ppc64le MPC7500 Not tested yet.
Ataraxia 201101 ppc64le MPC7500 Not tested yet.
Bedrock 0.7.28 ppc64 MPC7500 Not tested yet.
ppc64le JeremyRand Installed PyTorch on a Debian Bookworm VM, distro-morphed it to Bedrock, installed a Gentoo stratum, installed Gentoo's Electron package, Gentoo's Electron was able to use Debian's PyTorch without issues.
CentOS 7.7 ppc64le MPC7500 Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU
8 ppc64le maninap Works OOTB. In place upgrade from CentOS 7 worked (not officially supported). End Of Life (EOL) on December 31st, 2021.
CentOS Stream 8 ppc64le maninap Works OOTB. Converted from CentOS 8. Cyclical patch regressions impact AST GPU/Optical drives. End Of Life (EOL) on May 31st, 2024.
9 ppc64le maninap 10/2023 installer. Rescue kernel works, but others and kernel patching breaks. AST GPU works for install process. GUI installer has no option to create PREeP partition. In place upgrade from CentOS 8 Stream packages do not exist/removed.
Chimera 20220912 ppc64le MPC7500 Works.
Circle 8.6 ppc64le MPC7500 Not tested yet.
Debian 12 (2022-03-21 weekly DVD ISO) ppc64le JeremyRand Seems to work fine with XFCE inside KVM (machine type = pseries).
11.1.0 (netinst) ppc64le Jas Installs and works out of box with no changes. Installer is on serial port, VGA is blank

(workaround). Works fine as a KVM host via virt-manager and a Debian 11 guest VM.

11 (2021-03-29 weekly DVD ISO) ppc64le JeremyRand Seems to work fine with XFCE inside KVM (machine type = pseries).
11/Sid (2021-02-02 snapshot) ppc64 JeremyRand Seems to work fine with XFCE inside KVM (machine type = pseries). Note that even though this ISO is labeled "10.0.0" in the filename, it is actually Sid, not Buster.
10 (2018-05-28 weekly DVD ISO) ppc64le JeremyRand Seems to work fine. KDE crashes occasionally, but that might be unrelated to running it on POWER9. Works fine as a KVM host via virt-manager (tested with Debian 10 as the guest). Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint.
10.0 (ISO is dated 2018-05-18) ppc64 JeremyRand ISO fails to boot in virt-manager (KVM; machine type = pseries).
10 ppc64 awilfox Only tested in KVM-PV. Using Adélie easy-kernel as kernel, Debian Buster userland.
9.9.0 ppc64le MPC7500 Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU
9.5.0 ppc64le JeremyRand Seems to work fine with KDE inside KVM (machine type = pseries). Default version of Linux works fine. Be warned that the installer will enable the contrib repos (without your knowledge or consent), which is bad from a software freedom standpoint. However, running dpkg-query -W -f='${Section}\t${Package}\n' | grep ^contrib (see this Stack Exchange answer) suggests that no actual packages from the contrib repos are installed by default, so you should be able to disable the contrib repos after installation without ever being exposed to contrib-packaged software.
9 ppc64le nashimus Requires 4.16 or newer kernel. Installed Debian testing net install, set apt sources to Debian stable and downgraded, keeping 4.16 kernel. Most VMs failed to boot before updating qemu to 2.12.0.
Devuan 4.0 ppc64le MPC7500 Works
Fedora 40 ppc64le Tle Works fine. Mutter performance is quite smooth.
39 ppc64le Tle Works just fine.
38 ppc64le DKnoto Works just fine, see review on forum.
37 ppc64le ClassicHasClass Review at Talospace.
37 Beta ppc64le jbowen "Headless" server install works well, as does (GNOME) Workstation (graphics tested with a Sapphire Radeon HD5450).
36 ppc64le ClassicHasClass Review at Talospace.
35 ppc64le ClassicHasClass Review at Talospace.
34 ppc64le ClassicHasClass Review at Talospace.
33 ppc64le Tle Server and Workstation variant works perfectly!
ClassicHasClass Review at Talospace.
32 ppc64le Tle Server variant works perfectly!

The Workstation Live variant failed to load kernel image at Petitboot prompt, the workaround is to change kernel/initrd paths before booting to be /ppc/ppc64/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} instead of /ppc/ppc

ClassicHasClass Review at Talospace.
31 ppc64le MPC7500 Works. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU. When installing GNOME (workstation-product-environment) you have to do this modification
30 ppc64le MPC7500 Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU
28 ppc64le Sharkcz only bare metal verified for now, you might want to enable SharkCZ's COPR repo for not-yet-upstreamed updates
ppc64le nashimus May need to manually specify inst.stage2, during install. Workaround Bug
ppc64 Sharkcz discontinued in Fedora 29
Gentoo n/a ppc64le luke-jr Once installed, works fine.

GNOME, Plasma and other desktops are supported. Ships working firefox, qtwebengine:5. latest install iso supporting both 4k and 64k pagesize kernels

17.0 ppc64 MarcusC XFCE4 and virt-manager verified
Glasnost 2021.10-01 ppc64le MPC7500 Not tested yet.
Kicksecure (clearnet link) 16 ppc64le JeremyRand Appears to work fine with XFCE in a VM when the Kicksecure instructions are followed. Haven't tried CLI or host.
openSUSE Leap 15.1 ppc64le MPC7500 Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU
Tumbleweed 20190805 ppc64le Jonsger Install via serial console (over ssh) and connect HDMI to dedicated GPU. Use Xorg config from Troubleshooting/GPU#Step_2:_Create_Xorg_Configuration_Snippet. radeonsi is missing, as Mesa-dri is not build for ppc64le. Workaround: install from home:jbrielmaier:ppc64le repo.
Parabola 15-Apr-2021 ppc64le JeremyRand Not tested yet.
PowerEL 7 ppc64le MPC7500 Unable to install. The image is not displayed in Petitboot.
RHEL 9 ppc64le Tle Works
Riscy Slack (Slackware) 2020-11-17 ppc64le MPC7500 Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU
Rocky 9.0 ppc64le MPC7500 Not tested yet.
9.2 ppc64le maninap 05/2023 installer. Rescue kernel works, but others and kernel patching breaks. AST GPU works for install process. GUI installer has no option to create PREeP partition. Convert to Rocky script appears to only be x86 right now.
T2 SDE 21.5 ppc64le MPC7500 Not tested yet.
Trisquel 11 ppc64le Simon Josefsson Review by Simon.
Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS ppc64le manatails Installs and works out of box with no changes.
20.04 LTS ppc64le Jas Installs and works out of box with no changes.
19.10 (kernel 5.3.x) ppc64le FlyingBlackbird Works OOTB with GNOME (installed via sudo tasksel choosing Ubuntu Desktop) and a single SATA HDD. I only needed to configure Xorg for a FullHD resolution of the AST GPU as described in Troubleshooting/GPU#Display_stuck_at_default_low_resolution_with_AST_HDMI_GPU. Note that NVMe SSDs may crash when a manual or scheduled discard ("trim") is started (due to a kernel bug fixed in 5.4 but there is a work-around, see POWER9 Hardware Compatibility List/PCIe Devices#NVMe_Drives. So far a combination of a NVMe SSD and SATA HDD makes troubles if both drives are used for OS installation targets with booting from HDD causes ATA error messages (I am investigating this, see the up-to-date status of my system configuration).
19.04 ppc64le MPC7500 Works OOTB. I only needed the snippets for the AST GPU
18.10 ppc64le q66 Installs and works out of box with no changes, Xfce4.
Void Linux for Power Architecture n/a ppc64le q66 Staging fork of Void Linux (custom binary repository and infrastructure, merging changes back upstream), fully functional, both endians, glibc or musl, 64-bit or 32-bit (32-bit works on Talos with 64-bit kernel or in a VM).

UPDATE: Void Linux for Power ISA has been discontinued in January 2023 in favor of Chimera Linux. -JeremyRand

ppc64
ppc
Whonix (clearnet link) 16 ppc64le JeremyRand Appears to work fine with XFCE (both Gateway and Workstation) when the Whonix instructions are followed. Haven't tried CLI.
15 (Morphed from Sid) ppc64 JeremyRand Dependency conflicts prevent distro-morphing from Debian Sid to Whonix. I'm working on getting these fixed.
15 (Morphed from Buster) ppc64le JeremyRand Appears to work fine with KDE (both Gateway and Workstation) when the Whonix instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10. Haven't tried XFCE and CLI.
14 ppc64le JeremyRand Appears to work fine when the Whonix instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10. (UPDATE: Whonix 14 is no longer recommended by upstream for KVM; use Whonix 15 instead.)
amd64 JeremyRand Appears to boot without errors when the Whonix/x86 instructions are followed; host OS used for testing was Debian 10. Didn't test anything beyond showing the XFCE GUI.

BSDs

Distribution Version Architecture Reported by Notes
FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE ppc64le kev009 The most recent release, 13.0-RELEASE has initial ppc64le support
13.1-RELEASE ppc64 kev009 The most recent release
12.0-RELEASE ppc64 kev009 Contains initial POWER9 support
OpenBSD 7.3 ppc64 philipp SMT not supported. Uses serial for output during installation. Otherwise installs and works fine.
OpenBSD 6.8 ppc64 DanielPocock Official support since OpenBSD 6.8

Ports in progress

Rapid progress is being made on these ports by members of the community.

Rejected Ports

External Links

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