Arch Linux on Apple Power Mac G5?

I see that there is a Arch64 group trying to bring Arch to the PPC architecture. It is difficult to determine if this effort is just starting, or perhaps has resulted in a running PPC version.
To the point, does anyone have Arch running on an Apple Power Mac G5?

mac57 wrote:Yup, I have mixed up the two groups, but the Power Mac G5 *is* 64 bit - that is the source of the confusion. I am hearing that we don't have any Power Mac G5 Arch though, which is too bad!
a G5 is still a powerpc so archppc could run on it but i am not quite sure about wether archppc is ready for it out of the box.

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