Yeah, that’s probably why the games are so bad (but that’s just an opinion).
I’m much worried by this, as it is easy to loose one’s roots.
Do ‘any’ of the flavours cater for a G3 clambook by the way?
Flavors have nothing to do with hardware support, they are just different spins of what is in the Ubuntu archive, porting the archive to a new architecture or maintaining the existing ones happens in the distro itself, not in a flavor…
The last release to support Apple PowerPC (like G3/G4) was 14.04 … 11y ago
Huh ? Why would anyone lose their roots by supporting to run Ubuntu on stock exchange servers or supercomputers ?
Because the original idea of Ubuntu came from the workings of an LCII Apple Lisa machine, actually pal.
I’m just sorry that that has been forgotten.
Err, what ?!?
Ubuntu was created by Mark Shuttleworth, a bunch of Debian developers and a few other bright people in 2004…
Not sure where you see Apple’s Lisa come into play here (and I’m pretty positive it has never run on a Lisa ever since we have never supported Motorola M68000 processors (or any other 16bit CPUs) in Ubuntu)
The last flavor ISOs for ppc were 16.04; which had 3 years of support; ending the same time as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS reached EOSS.
As there was no Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release for ppc, all package builds stopped at the three year point, as the kernel used (if I recall correctly) relied on the HWE builds of the 14.04 kernel for Canonical’s kernel work (14.04 reaching EOSS matched the 3 years for 16.04 flavors anyway).
I’ll provide a link for Lubuntu 16.04 LTS which mentions PowerPC you’ll note, but other flavors may have had support for ppc too in 16.04 (three years only though!). Those are all EOL though; should only be considered if hardware is used offline (if ISOs can be found)
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Things certainly have moved on from where it began!
It apppears all Ubuntu wants is ‘power’ now.
They surely have, I was around when Ubuntu began and I also had childhood friends that owned a Lisa 20y before Ubuntu was even an idea and I can assure you there is no relation between the two at all…
All Ubuntu wants and always wanted is to make open source available everywhere to everyone, nothing more, nothing less, but it also has to handle it’s limited resources so irrelevant outdated hardware can not be supported forever…
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Can we please return to discussing Ubuntu on Xbox 360 now?
I doubt there is anything to discuss anymore given we do not support the processor architecture and the topic will close anyway in 3 days (I’ll refrain from answering from now on … so it should auto-close unless someone else keeps making noise)
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