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2026 1

  1. CopyFail works on ppc64le

2025 7

  1. FreeBSD considering end of ppc64 support
  2. Debian 13 Trixie
  3. Power11 hits the market this month
  4. Enter the IBM z17 mainframe with Telum II (more clues for Power11?)
  5. Plan 9 finally comes to the POWER9
  6. Real-world Blackbird does real-world stuff for Apache (really)
  7. Microwatt goes multiprocessor

2024 21

  1. Fedora 41 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
  2. CHRP support gone from Linux kernel
  3. Updated Baseline JIT OpenPOWER patches for Firefox 128ESR
  4. Fedora 41
  5. Running Thunderbird with the OpenPower Baseline JIT
  6. Music production on Power: an adventure in porting
  7. Baseline JIT patches available for Firefox ESR128 on OpenPOWER
  8. Chromium Power ISA patches ... from Solid Silicon
  9. A RISC-V option for your Framework laptop (how about POWER next?)
  10. A baby Power10, if you're desperate
  11. Rocky Linux 9.4
  12. End of the road for PowerPC 40x in Linux
  13. Fedora 40 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II (and a taste of Chromium)
  14. Fedora 40
  15. OpenBSD 7.5
  16. Firefox 124 on POWER
  17. Firefox 123 on POWER
  18. Early Power11 signals in the kernel
  19. Firmware 2.10 available for Talos II and Blackbird
  20. ICYMI: Hugo Landau explains how the Broadcom BCM5719 was freed
  21. Firefox 122 on POWER

2023 34

  1. Fedora 39 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II (and other woes)
  2. Firefox 121
  3. Fedora 39
  4. Firefox 119 and the next ppc64le JITeration
  5. The next Raptor OpenPOWER systems are coming, but they won't be Power10
  6. OpenBSD 7.4
  7. Progress on the Firefox ppc64le JIT
  8. Partial ppc64le JIT available again for Firefox 115ESR
  9. ppc64le JIT now officially landing (again) in DOSBox Staging
  10. Firefox 117 on POWER
  11. It's a plug and pray night
  12. Linux 6.5
  13. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Doom64EX and Doom64EX-Plus
  14. Firefox 116 on POWER
  15. Firefox 115 on POWER
  16. Linux 6.4
  17. Firefox 114 on POWER
  18. SDL2 VMX bugfix
  19. Maybe XFS truly is cursed
  20. Rocky Linux 9.2 is rocky
  21. Firefox 113 on POWER
  22. Fedora 38 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
  23. Fedora 38
  24. FreeBSD 13.2
  25. OpenBSD 7.3
  26. Firefox 111 on POWER
  27. Now your LLaMa is playing with POWER
  28. Firefox 110 on POWER
  29. Vikings now has Blackbirds
  30. Linux 6.2
  31. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Shadow Warrior
  32. Firefox 109 on POWER
  33. In case you thought AIX had a future
  34. Your X server may no longer swing both ways by default

2022 56

  1. Fedora 37 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
  2. Firefox 108 on POWER
  3. When Petitboot barfs, everything's vomit
  4. Linux 6.1
  5. RHEL 9.1, AlmaLinux 9.1 and (eventually) RockyLinux
  6. Firefox 107 on POWER
  7. Fedora 37
  8. POWER9 and tagged memory and why you care
  9. Firefox 106 on POWER
  10. OpenBSD 7.2
  11. More cores for Mesa llvmpipe
  12. Linux 6.0
  13. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: ZGloom
  14. Firefox 105 on POWER
  15. Void PPC goes Chimera (and bust)
  16. The RAD750's successor looks like it's RISC-V
  17. What's Arctic Tern good for, anyway?
  18. Linux 5.19
  19. Arctic Tern available for purchase
  20. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Duke Nukem II
  21. Raptor says the Blackbird crunch ends in August (and maybe Arctic Terns too)
  22. Rocky Linux 9.0
  23. CXL is going to eat OMI's lunch
  24. Firefox 102 on POWER
  25. And now a real RISC-V laptop ... maybe
  26. Fedora 36 mini-mini-review on the Blackbird
  27. Firefox 101 on POWER
  28. Mini-review: The Clockwork Pi DevTerm R-01, or RISC-V on the go
  29. First production Kestrel and Arctic Terns? (OpenPOWER compute modules exist!)
  30. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and AlmaLinux 8.6
  31. FreeBSD 13.1
  32. AOSC for old and new Power
  33. Fedora 36 released
  34. Firefox 100 on POWER
  35. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Death Rally
  36. Attack of the zombie PowerVR GPUs
  37. Firefox 99 on POWER
  38. Asahi Linux gives hope for weird page sizes yet
  39. The first production RISC-V portable?
  40. Firefox 98 on POWER
  41. Red Hat halts sales and services in Russia and Belarus
  42. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Aleph One and the Marathon series
  43. Faster framebuffer landing in Linux 5.18
  44. Intel gets worse, but Power11 might get better
  45. AlmaLinux 8.5 now stable on ppc64le
  46. Vikings' OpenPOWER store is open
  47. Chimera Linux test ISOs available for ppc64le
  48. Brief status update on the POWER9 JavaScript JIT
  49. Skiboot support lands in Coreboot
  50. Firefox 97 on POWER
  51. SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER
  52. Finally: long double's coming to Fedora 36
  53. Next JIT branch up
  54. Firefox 96 on Power
  55. Another PowerPC in space
  56. CentOS 8 is an ex-distro (but AlmaLinux is not)

2021 68

  1. W(h)ither POWER8
  2. 91ESR with Baseline Compiler/Baseline wasm for POWER9
  3. Firefox 95 on POWER
  4. Fedora 35 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
  5. If you like big-endian and Void and cannot lie ...
  6. 51,552 JavaScript tests can't be wrong
  7. #ShowUsYourTalos
  8. Big and little POWER shouldn't just be endian
  9. Firefox 94 on POWER
  10. Fedora 35
  11. New Blackbird firmware
  12. First flight of Kestrel, the FPGA OpenPOWER-based BMC, and introducing the Arctic Tern dev board
  13. A water-cooled update
  14. Ubuntu 21.10 and 20.04.3
  15. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Space Cadet Pinball
  16. OpenBSD 7.0
  17. Firefox 93 on POWER
  18. DAWR YOLO even with DD2.3
  19. Whonix on OpenPOWER
  20. Better x86 emulation with Live CDs
  21. Firefox 92 on POWER
  22. It's not just OMI that's the trouble with POWER10
  23. First POWER10 machine announced
  24. Cache splash in Telum means seventh heaven for POWER11?
  25. Kernel 5.14
  26. OpenPOWER Firefox JIT update
  27. Debian 11
  28. Firefox 91 on POWER fur the fowk
  29. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: System Shock Enhanced Edition
  30. Rest in peace, Itanium
  31. Firefox 90 on POWER (and a JIT progress report)
  32. Intel might fab your next POWER chip
  33. Chimera Linux: if you like BSD and Linux, why not both
  34. Bloody Friday at IBM?
  35. PowerPC and the Western Digital My Book Live debacle
  36. How to make GNOME not suck on Fedora 34 ppc64le
  37. Make water cooling great again
  38. Debian 10.10
  39. Firefox 89 on POWER
  40. Progress on the OpenPOWER SpiderMonkey JIT
  41. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: Blake Stone Aliens of Gold
  42. Fedora 34 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II (it sucks)
  43. LibreBMC and Kestrel: two separate BMC tastes that taste separate separately
  44. GNU Guix 1.3
  45. LibreBMC announced, end of Kestrel?
  46. The strange bedfellows who want a little POWER
  47. OpenBSD 6.9
  48. Prefixed instructions and more in the OpenPOWER 64-bit ELF V2 ABI Specification
  49. Fedora 34
  50. Ubuntu 21.04 and the expanding Wayland Wasteland
  51. Will Kestrel become the better BMC?
  52. Firefox 88 on POWER
  53. FreeBSD 13 and Guix for OpenPOWER
  54. More 64K page problems and some solutions
  55. Tonight's game on OpenPOWER: The Original Strife Veteran's Edition
  56. MIPS goes RISC-V
  57. Juicing QEMU for fun, ??? and profit!
  58. Firefox 86 on POWER
  59. Blackbird supply chain likely to improve
  60. Gentoo on little-endian
  61. A better theory on why there won't be an open POWER10 workstation for awhile
  62. Followup on Firefox 85 for POWER: new low-level fix
  63. Firefox 85 on POWER
  64. Introducing Kestrel, part II: it's a soft-BMC
  65. There is no CentOS 8, there is only Stream and also this limited no-cost developer thing
  66. Introducing Kestrel
  67. The first Raptor tease of 2021
  68. Fedora 3-4K?

2020 69

  1. Void PPC goes little-endian ... on 32-bit
  2. Linux 5.10
  3. There is no CentOS 8, there is only Stream
  4. Where's Axon?
  5. Is this the RISC-V PC?
  6. Firefox 83 on POWER
  7. Guix port to OpenPOWER
  8. Vikings' first order with Raptor is go
  9. Fedora 33 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
  10. Updates: Fedora 33, FreeBSD 12.2, Ubuntu 20.10
  11. Firefox 82 on POWER goes PGO
  12. OpenBSD officially available for ppc64
  13. IBM splits
  14. Where did the 64K page size come from?
  15. It's good to have a Hangover
  16. IBM makes available the POWER10 Functional Simulator
  17. FreeBSD swings both ways
  18. Firefox 81 on POWER
  19. The first production RISC-V workstation?
  20. Moar OpenPOWER cores plz
  21. IBM open-sources PowerAI as OpenCE
  22. Microwatt floats
  23. Firefox 80 on POWER
  24. POWER10 sounds really great, but ...
  25. Vikings' upcoming OpenPOWER retail channel
  26. Will it build?
  27. Linux 5.8 on POWER
  28. Condor cancelled
  29. Firefox 79 on POWER
  30. The littlest POWER9 booter
  31. When will OpenPOWER OpenBSD be now? Now.
  32. Firefox 78 on POWER
  33. The newest OpenPOWER chip: A2
  34. Don't just slack. Power Slack.
  35. It's Talos all the way down
  36. #ShowUsYourTalos
  37. Firefox 77 on POWER
  38. Welcome to OpenPOWER, James Kulina!
  39. Updates to Alpine Linux and RHEL, and now Devuan
  40. Linux 5.7
  41. Fedora 32 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
  42. Give your OpenPOWER machine a big K1ss
  43. When will OpenPOWER OpenBSD be now? Soon.
  44. The case of the disappearing core
  45. #ShowUsYourTalos
  46. Firefox 76 on POWER
  47. QEMU adds POWER10 support
  48. Fedora 32 released
  49. Eight four two one, twice the cores is (almost) twice as fun
  50. What to do when the BMC won't talk to you
  51. Firefox 75 on POWER
  52. Some updated notes on KVMPPC
  53. Getting closer to Classic on Linux on ppc64le
  54. Raptor suspends shipments due to COVID-19
  55. Combat coronavirus. Buy a Blackbird.
  56. Firefox 74 on POWER
  57. Jon Masters, transparent ARM shill
  58. Messing with the new 2.0 BMC
  59. The BMC is getting new tricks
  60. Firefox 73 on POWER
  61. DIY IPMI fans
  62. Do the brew*
  63. Bonuses for big-endian
  64. CentOS updated to 8.1.1911
  65. Another Amiga you don't want
  66. Fedora Workstation Live ISOs up (and hopefully sticking)
  67. Firefox 72 on POWER
  68. DOSBox JIT on ppc64le (and how you can write your own)
  69. Void Linux ppc64le packages at 100%

2019 82

  1. Updates to Alpine Linux and SUSE
  2. Firefox 71 on POWER
  3. AMD Navi support coming to OpenPOWER
  4. How far we've come in Power ISA
  5. MIPS Open Initiative isn't anymore
  6. Bettering the BMC and bring-up
  7. Debian 10.2 available
  8. Fedora 31 mini-review on the Blackbird and Talos II
  9. DD2.3 POWER9 steppings now available
  10. Talos II and Talos II Lite officially FSF Respects Your Freedom products
  11. FreeBSD 12.1 available
  12. Fedora 31 available
  13. Firefox 70 on POWER
  14. Is the warrant canary still warranted?
  15. Ubuntu 19.10 available
  16. librsvg2 issue on ppc64le
  17. CentOS 8 and CentOS Stream (The Freshmaker)
  18. Low-level change to Firefox 70 and ESR coming
  19. CentOS 7-1908 available
  20. Linux 5.3 for POWER, and ppc64le gets a Fedora Desktop
  21. A beginner's guide to hacking Microwatt
  22. Firefox 69 on POWER
  23. The VMX eagle is landing in Firefox 70 (plus: which core should open the door?)
  24. Support from a silicon turnip
  25. Blood from a silicon turnip
  26. Day 2 keynote and OpenPOWER blows the doors off: royalty-free, open soft-core (RISC-V sweating gallons)
  27. Keynote notes from Day 1 of OpenPOWER Summit NA (and introducing the Condor)
  28. Gearing up for OpenPOWER Summit
  29. Power stuff and other stuff at Vintage Computer Festival West 2019
  30. Vintage Computer Festival West opens in one hour
  31. Qubes == Dollar$
  32. Easier Power ISA vectorizing for fun and profit with GCC x86 intrinsics
  33. Power ISA improvements in 5.2 (and a Raptor tease)
  34. One big happy Void
  35. OCC is the sound you make when throttled
  36. FreeBSD on POWER
  37. Firefox 68 on POWER
  38. DIAF, Amazon Music (and DRM)
  39. Serious hash table kernel bug (CVE-2019-12817)
  40. Alpine Linux updated to 3.10
  41. And now a bird that's not a Raptor: the H3 Falcon II
  42. A couple followups to the Blackbird semi-review
  43. A semi-review of the Raptor Blackbird: POWER9 on the cheap(er)
  44. Flying the Blackbird
  45. The Mac Pro makes quesadillas again
  46. Void Comes Alive CD!
  47. Fedora 30 mini-review on the Talos II
  48. OpenSUSE updated to 15.1
  49. Firefox 67 on POWER
  50. What's missing in this picture
  51. ZombieLoad does not affect POWER9
  52. Blackbird shipments start next week
  53. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
  54. DAWR YOLO mode coming to kernel 5.2
  55. A friendly FPGA reminder
  56. Fedora 30 released (and a big Void)
  57. A quick trip to IBM OzLabs
  58. Broadcom BCM5719 libre firmware coming real soon
  59. ArchLinux on POWER9
  60. Blackbird delayed to May
  61. I wouldn't trust ME with a VISA either
  62. Pitch into the Firefox JIT
  63. Firefox 66 on POWER
  64. A close look at the Raptor Blackbird and what I did at So Cal Linux Expo 17
  65. Ubuntu LTS 14.04.6 available
  66. New Talos PowerAI SKU
  67. Linux 5.0
  68. Ubuntu LTS 16.04.6 available
  69. Raptor, help us out here on the software side
  70. OpenSUSE 15.1 Beta available, just not for us (yet)
  71. Blackbirds to ship Q2 2019
  72. assert_slb_presence aaargh_warnings_everywhere make_it_stop
  73. Ubuntu LTS 18.04.2 available
  74. The last POWER1 on Mars is dead
  75. The AMD POWER7?
  76. So long, Itanium
  77. Alpine Linux 3.9.0 available
  78. Firefox 65 keeps up the POWER
  79. Flicker fixin' the WX7100
  80. Introducing appmodmap: make the Command key work again (or, making Mac refugees into Talos owners)
  81. IBM's POWER9 retrospective is a little one-sided
  82. Void Linux goes POWER9

2018 50

  1. Who got Talos II order #1?
  2. IBM chooses Samsung for POWER10
  3. The saga of the Power ISA 128-bit long double
  4. No love for PowerPC from MAME
  5. The POWER continues in Firefox 64
  6. FreeBSD 12.0 released
  7. Fedora 29 mini-review on Talos II
  8. CentOS 7.6.1810 available
  9. Why we need Firefox on Talos, not just Chromium
  10. Blackbird's on sale for Black Friday weekend!
  11. Sometimes it's necessary: running x86_64 binaries on the Talos II
  12. Would you pre-order a Blackbird for $875?
  13. Roadgeeking with the Talos II (or, Workstation FUD and Loathing)
  14. LaGrange system in the works?
  15. Making your Talos II into an IBM pSeries
  16. Fedora 29 out
  17. IBM buys Red Hat
  18. Patches needed for Firefox 63
  19. Chromium for ppc64le builds available
  20. Blackbird scheduled for availability in Q1 2019
  21. Ubuntu 18.10 now available
  22. MXE fix for ppc64le
  23. Initial Blackbird specifications announced
  24. Raptor confirms Talos II not subject to Supermicro chip hack
  25. "Tiny Talos" reveal scheduled for tomorrow
  26. Ubuntu 18.10 beta announced
  27. Fedora 29 Beta announcement
  28. Chromium on POWER9 ready to land
  29. Nested virtualization coming to POWER9
  30. More news on the "Tiny Talos"
  31. Alpine Linux updated to 3.8.1
  32. More POWER in Firefox 62
  33. Talos shines at OSS North America
  34. Is there a tiny Talos in the timeline?
  35. Musing over POWER9 roadmap at Hot Chips
  36. Making your Talos II into a Power Mac: dcbz considered harmful (part 2)
  37. GlobalFoundries stops all 7nm development
  38. Making your Talos II into a Power Mac: KVMPPC for POWER9 (part 1)
  39. Intel: Benchmark our product and we'll sue
  40. CentOS announces support for POWER9
  41. IBM finishes Cumulus rollout
  42. Foreshadow and L1 Terminal Fault: another good day to be on Power ISA
  43. Linux kernel 4.18 available
  44. Our local Talos, let us show you it
  45. New Talos II Special Developer System SKU: TLSDS3
  46. Ubuntu LTS updates
  47. Adélie Linux ported to Talos II big-endian
  48. Talos articles from our sister blog
  49. Write for Talospace
  50. Welcome to Talospace