I have just been reading about Ubuntu's decision to deprecate their ppc version of Ubuntu for future releases -- at least part of said decision was a cost issue -- related to number of users who actually use ppc Ubuntu...
I have also just been reading that the mainline Debian project has been going through a similiar decision process regarding debian ppc.
I am encouraged that the Sony PS3 uses a Cell CPU -- which has a modified ppc core to it -- thus it can run Fedora PPC and does judging from videos on YouTube...
I tried to report that I use Fedora PPC using that new hardware report tool from the Fedora Project page....but that failed for some reason...
Thus the question: Are we in any danger of Fedora PPC being deprecated or stopped in the near future? Also who do we need to petition to stop any poisonous thinking along these lines among leaders of the Fedora Project?
I admit I have selfish reasons for asking all this... I run a dual boot MacOSX Tiger/Fedora Core 6 PPC Blue and White G3 that I built from parts off ebay in a leftover PC Case from a Burned out AMD Athlon. I could and probably will build more of these for a few people I know if I can still find OS and software that will run on them.
Thanks for your time- James Rooker
On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:58, james rooker wrote:
Thus the question: Are we in any danger of Fedora PPC being deprecated or stopped in the near future? Also who do we need to petition to stop any poisonous thinking along these lines among leaders of the Fedora Project?
The leaders of the Fedora Project have discussed making ppc a "secondary" arch when we have the infrastructure in place for secondary arches to exist and function well. David Woodhouse has stated that he would be more than happy to be the arch maintainer for PPC as a secondary arch once the infrastructure is in place and proven to work. This may not be until the Fedora 8 timeframe. Until then we will continue to produce a PPC port of Fedora for all 1% of our users (:
Does secondary status mean it will be harder to get ppc rpm packages? Or harder to get ppc version iso images? Guess we should be hoping the PS3 use as a linux box really takes off or XBOX 360 gets hacked to use ppc linux -- so that the powers that be may see fit to keep ppc arch in the mainstream. Does Fedora PPC get any real help at all from IBM or YellowDog considering both use ppc linux and fedora as a base quite extensively??
Thanks- James.
--- Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com wrote:
On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:58, james rooker wrote:
Thus the question: Are we in any danger of Fedora
PPC
being deprecated or stopped in the near future?
Also
who do we need to petition to stop any poisonous thinking along these lines among leaders of the
Fedora
Project?
The leaders of the Fedora Project have discussed making ppc a "secondary" arch when we have the infrastructure in place for secondary arches to exist and function well. David Woodhouse has stated that he would be more than happy to be the arch maintainer for PPC as a secondary arch once the infrastructure is in place and proven to work. This may not be until the Fedora 8 timeframe. Until then we will continue to produce a PPC port of Fedora for all 1% of our users (:
-- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
Fedora-ppc mailing list Fedora-ppc@lists.infradead.org
On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:40, james rooker wrote:
Does secondary status mean it will be harder to get ppc rpm packages? Or harder to get ppc version iso images?
Not so much. It just means that builds on the primary arches won't fail if the build fails on a secondary arch, so it will be up to the community built around the secondary arch to ensure that the arch continues to work. The secondary arch group will also be responsible for spinning their release, but the tools we provide make that very easy.
Guess we should be hoping the PS3 use as a linux box really takes off or XBOX 360 gets hacked to use ppc linux -- so that the powers that be may see fit to keep ppc arch in the mainstream.
I really don't see that as adding a significant amount of users.
Does Fedora PPC get any real help at all from IBM or YellowDog considering both use ppc linux and fedora as a base quite extensively??
Not so much. IBM does some help with the RHEL stuff I think, but not so much Fedora that I've seen. It has been mostly up to our internal engineers to fix things on PPC when they go wrong.
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