Operating System Compatibility List
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GNU/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. Firefox occasionally crashes when context-clicking. |
| Debian | 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. |
| 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. | |
| Fedora | 28 | ppc64le | Sharkcz | only bare metal verified for now |
| 28 | ppc64 | Sharkcz | test entry | |
| Gentoo | n/a | ppc64le | luke-jr | Once installed, works fine. |
| 17.0 | ppc64 | MarcusC | XFCE4 and virt-manager verified |
Ports in progress
Rapid progress is being made on these ports by members of the community.
- FreeBSD
- NixOS
- GuixSD (Isengaara)
