Ongoing Core 2 Port Status

[Richard Irving]

   I am rather surprised you couldn't interest the rest of the
Fedora base to roll back in your Alpha changes...

   Most changes, except but a few, are related to the 64 bit System,
not just Alpha...

  As you solve the problems getting to the Alpha, you make it -all-
closer to true 64 bit clean, in the first place...


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Mike Barnes wrote:
> Hi folks - just a little note that I've been meaning to post for a
> couple of days, and now that I'm in an especially good mood becuase of
> the possibility of getting the last issues with Anaconda sorted out,
> here we go ...
> 
> We seem to have achieved a degree of stability with the "Carmen"
> release, which was intended as a development base for fututre systems,
> and a bit of a leg-up from RedHat 7.2. The question "what next" has
> always been hanging around without much of an answer.
> 
> Given the limited resources we have, the limited life-span of the
> Alpha, and the rather narrow interest (compared to other platforms),
> keeping pace with Fedora Core isn't likely to happen. Core 3 is just
> around the corner, and we're only just seeing the possibility of
> getting an installable Core 2 build happening.
> 
> I've swapped a few emails with Cristian lately about where we go from
> here. We both agree that we'd keep maintaining our own systems no
> matter what, so we might as well keep sharing what we're doing. The
> best idea, in my humble opinion, is to pretty much fork off a new
> Fedora-based distribution.
> 
> It'll be almost 100% identical to the mainstream tree (although
> lagging a generation or two behind), and we'll use the release sources
> and Rawhide whenever possible, but there's a bit of a psychological
> gain if we stop calling it "Fedora Core" and feel like we're trying to
> keep up.
> 
> Unless anyone has a better idea for a name, the next release built
> from the Carmen base, will be labelled "Alpha Core". It will be be an
> ongoing project, any help welcome (of course), and could conceivably
> last as long as there's someone running it on an Alpha.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has debugged, tested and suggested so far. My
> name has been mentioned in conjunction with this project fairly often,
> but it never would have got here without the work - direct and
> indirect - of a great many other people. I'm happy to have been
> involved, and look forward to getting a lot of use out of my Alpha in
> the future.
> 
> 
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