Lubuntu 17.04 will not be compatible with PowerPC

As has already happened with the official Ubuntu and with other flavors of it, the 32-bit PowerPC architecture will also disappear from the Lubuntu 17.04 OS, which has also stopped working with this architecture, leaving users without Lubuntu from now on.

Until these last days, it was thought that Lubuntu 17.04 was going to be compatible with PowerPC, however,they will stop publishing daily ISOs on February 13, although we can continue to download the ISOs that have been released to this day, although it is not recommended due to the issue of instability and lack of support.

This converts to Lubuntu 16.10 on the latest PowerPC compatible Lubuntu 32-bit, dying with it an era (although we can use the 16.04 LTS version until 2019). With this change, Lubuntu joins the rest of the distributions that have decided to do without this architecture, an architecture that already seems a thing of the past.

This leaves Ubuntu Mate as the only distro that will work with 32-bit PowerPC for Ubuntu 17.04, so if you still have a PC that handles this architecture, it will be the only flavor of the Ubuntu 17.04 operating system that you can use.

The rest of Ubuntu flavors already dropped support with PowerPC last year, Because it is an architecture that is increasingly in disuse, in favor of the x84 and x64 architecture, which are the ones used right now in most computer equipment.

Undoubtedly, it looks like the good old days of PowerPC architecture are coming to an end, since now they are implemented in very few systems. They were good times while it lasted, but it seems that these times are over.

Yes, if you want to say goodbye in a big way, you can still download the latest Ubuntu 17.04 Daily Builds for PowerPC this link. Of course, as it is an operating system in development, it is not stable (and in PowerPC it will never be), so its use in work environments is not recommended.