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25 Nov 2009

End of Life for PowerPC OpenSUSE

OpenSUSE 11.2 for PowerPC has gone missing, and the OpenSUSE team has now acknowledged that they will not produce future versions either. They offer to support anybody who would like to volunteer for the task. One must also wonder what the implications are for PowerPC in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server...

Read more at bugzilla.novell.com...

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