Attempt to bring this page into the current decade, part 1: remove news

from 2011 and previous; point to the mailing list rather then grehan,
who is now less active; point to the wiki as a better reference of
currently supported systems.
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<a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
Tier 2</a> platform. That means it is
not being fully supported by our security officer, release engineers and
toolchain maintainers.</p>
toolchain maintainers. However, it is supported by portmgr (package
building).</p>
<p>The most up-to-date information about supported hardware is currently
being maintained
<a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc">on the wiki</a>.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade"/>
<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>05 January, 2011</strong>: Support for the Sony Playstation 3
has been committed to SVN.</li>
<li><strong>13 July, 2010</strong>: Support for the powerpc64 architecture
added.</li>
<li><strong>03 March, 2008</strong>: Support for Freescale&reg;
PowerQUICC III MPC85XX family system-on-chip development boards
has been committed into CVS.</li>
<li><strong>27 February, 2008</strong>: FreeBSD 7.0 is the first
release to officially support the FreeBSD/ppc port.</li>
<li><strong>05 June, 2019</strong>: FreeBSD has been tested and seems
to work on the
<a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc/Raptor/Blackbird">Raptor
Blackbird</a>.</li>
</ul>
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<h4><a name="5">Who should I contact?</a></h4>
<p><a href="mailto:grehan@FreeBSD.org">Peter Grehan</a> is the project
leader. Contact him if you can contribute code. If you just want
to know about the status of this project, check this page
regularly or join the
<a href="#list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="#list">FreeBSD/ppc mailing list</a> is the main
resource.</p>
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<h3><a name="hardware">Supported Hardware</a></h3>
<p>The most up-to-date information about supported hardware is currently
being maintained
<a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc">on the wiki</a>.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD/ppc port should run on any New-World Apple machine (any Apple
machine with a built-in USB port), as well as the Sony Playstation 3. A
port to IBM pSeries hardware is in progress. People reported FreeBSD runs