On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Fellow Fedora users,
In light of all the postings, there is one that has not been discussed:
http://www.osnews.com/story/23071/GNU_Linux_Distros_Silently_Drop_PowerPC
Apparently PowerPC support is silently going away, even for Fedora 13, since there was no
announcement and checking on Craig's link to 75% of the code from kernel is paid, I
saw this and sent it as a heads up.
Hope Fedora lets it PowerPC users know about this.
The death knell may have started when Apple moved their systems to
Intel processors. It's a community based OS (not Fedora specifically,
but the Linux/GNU community at large). If there are no cheap systems
to develop code it's hard to get the critical mass to push a distro.
RHEL5.5 is available for IBM Power though. I will be installing it on
a p550 sometime soon.