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Suse Linux for Power processors resurrected
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SuSe for Power PC CPUs? Better believe it, buster! Take a look for yourself…
Novell’s OpenSuse project for broadening development of its Suse Linux operating system product has led to the restoration of a version of the product for PowerPC processors used in current Apple Computer machines.
Suse stopped selling its boxed product for PowerPC computers at version 7.3; the product now is at version 9.3. Suse and its acquirer, Novell, continued to sell a version of the higher-end Suse Linux Enterprise Server for Power-based IBM servers. (IBM’s Power processors are a close relative to the PowerPC chips built by IBM and Freescale Semiconductor for use in Apple’s computers.) [Read the rest]