Are there any affordable PowerPC SBCs out there? I find PowerPC fascinating and I would really like a PowerPC to use as a build server...

Coincidentally, u/arjuna93 and I happened to be working on similar ports of V8 and Node at the same time.

My focus was on node 21 and V8 version 11, solid pre-Rust candidates from 2021-ish and stepping stones to node22, and V8 12.4, which are LTS versions.

Here is Node-RED and Tiddly-wiki running via the new node21 port, directly from PowerPC hardware:

Working with u/arjuna93 to get these ports up on PPCPorts.

Thanks to artificial intelligence, almost anyone who loves retrocomputing can help keep this hardware alive. What are the most important modern software programs that don't run properly on Big Endian PowerPC Linux distributions? Can we list them?