MorphOS 2.0 for Pegasos and EFIKA available

Three years after the last v1.4.5 update the MorphOS team has gone commercial, releasing v2.0 of their operating system for Pegasos 1 & 2 and EFIKA computers.

openSuSE 11.0 released, not only for x86 but also for PowerPC

The new openSuSE release 11.0 reached Golden Master state. Although you can't buy the DVD yet, you can already download them.

Firefox v3 Linux PowerPC Binaries

The PPCNUX team was somehow disappointed to search a Linux PowerPC binary in vain on the Firefox 3 doanload day. So we build our own. And you can too. It's straight forward. Have a look.

Unpronounceable Freescale Rebranding

Freescale's marketing folks have outdone themselves this time. While their
core-to-chip numbering is mostly intelligible (e.g. 85xx chips use the e500

Freescale's New e500mc Core

As part of the QorIQ brand announced at Freescale Technology Forum this week,
Freescale announced the e500mc core. The new P4080 processor contains eight

AMD Promotes Accelerators; Criticizes Cell

An AMD fellow presented to Stanford, promoting a vision of co-processor accelerators driven by a general-purpose core (which would also handle legacy and single-threaded tasks).

Terra Soft Solutions to Offer PPC64 Quad-core "YDL PowerStation" (Update)

Terra Soft Solutions is set to offer a quad-core PPC64 desk side computer starting June 10th per their web site: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/store/ and then click "PowerStation"

DoD "discussing" PA Semi Acquisition

Apparently the US Department of Defense is indeed discussing the P.A. Semi
acquisition with both Apple and the Federal Trade Commission (which

Embedded PowerPC Linux Podcast Episode

IBM's Linux Technology Center has been posting podcasts (which are like news
articles but less skimmable) on various Linux topics. The next one is about

VirtualLogix Supports PowerPC

The news is a little old now, but VirtualLogix is apparently now supporting 750 and "PowerQUICC" processors with its embedded virtualization product.

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