On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 07:49 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> We just started to support ARM, I don't think we want to
drop it.
> I guess those three products are currently most important and
> other products like Embedded should go into Spins category. At
> least for now.
Yes, we're probably not going to be offering a direct embedded
product
right from the get-go. However, the Fedora ARM project will definitely
have a place in the Server and Cloud variants, as several hardware
manufacturers have been announcing ARM-based servers.
Apologies for the necro, I'm catching up on this whole discussion.
I really think whatever the New Way Of Doing Things turns out to be, it
needs to include a minimal network install image much like the current
netinst.iso, built for all primary arches, as a primary deliverable.
Whether that's considered part of one of the 'products' or the 'base
os'
or whatever I don't know, but I really think it would be a huge mistake
not to ship something along those lines. It is likely to be what a lot
of ARM users want. I think having that, and ARM builds of the products
so far proposed, should cover the bases - but so far as the Workstation
product goes, remember that GNOME does not currently work well on most
supported ARM platforms, so our 'ARM Workstation' is currently KDE.
We've done a lot of work over the last few cycles to really bump ARM up
to 'first class citizen' status, and a lot of that is coming together -
I think reasonably successfully - in F19 and F20. It would be rather odd
to go with a change for F21 or F22 which goes in the opposite direction.
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