PowerPC

Developed in cooperation of Motorola and IBM, these CPUs are used mainly in Apple's PowerMacs and in IBM's pSeries and iSeries systems (aka RS/6000 and AS/400).
Meanwhile IBM has taken over development of PowerPC CPUs completely.

Ports

• APUS - Amiga PowerUP System - Amiga systems with PowerPC upgrade boards.
• CHRP - Secord standard for the architecture of (IBM's) PowerPC systems
• generic
• iSeries - IBM iSeries (former AS/400)
• PowerMac - Apple Power Macintosh computers with PCI bus and compatibles.
• PowerMac/NuBus - The first models of Apple Power Macintoshs
• PReP - First standard for the architecture of (IBM's) PowerPC systems. Erster Standard für die Architektur von (IBM-)PowerPC-Systemen
• RS/6000 Microchannel - Earliest IBM-PowerPC machines

Distributions

The following Linux distributions are available for this architecture.

• BlueCat Linux
• Debian GNU/Linux
• ELinOS
• Fedora
• Gentoo Linux
• Mandriva Linux
• MkLinux
• MontaVista Linux
• Novell SUSE Linux
• openSUSE
• Red Hat
• ROCK Linux
• RTLinux
• Source Mage GNU/Linux
• Ubuntu
• Yellow Dog Linux

Links

• BlueCat Linux: PowerPC
• Debian GNU/Linux: PowerPC
• Gentoo Linux: PowerPC
• Linux - Wegweiser zur Installation & Konfiguration: Linux auf PowerPC-Computern installieren
• Linux on Power wiki
• MkLinux
• penguinppc.org - Official homepage of the Linux PowerPC port.
• penguinppc64.org - Linux on 64 bit PowerPCs.
• PPCNUX - German website around PowerPC (especially Mac) Linux