On 15 June 2012 01:57, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
So I would urge Fedora not to waste our time on a low-end architecture filling a temporary niche which will become obsolete as demand for performance increases. We should rather support only one primary architecture (x86, i.e.: x86_64, and legacy i686 as long as there's a need for it) and support it well, as we have done since we finally got rid of the legacy PPC burden. Niche architectures are exactly what secondary architectures are for.
Servers are moving to ARM as well, HP and Dell for example:
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/iss/110111.aspx http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/high-performance-computing/b/weblog/...
We could guess RHEL 7 will build on the ARM development in Fedora.
And I personally would really like to run something that's not x86.
Regards, --Simone