PowerPC support

Nicholas Wourms nwourms at digitalme.com
Tue Sep 30 21:33:30 UTC 2003


Paul Iadonisi wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:20:43AM -0400, mike at flyn.org wrote:
> 
>>Is there any plans to add a PowerPC build of Fedora?
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> 
>>Are there any like-minded folks out there?
> 
> 
>   Yes.  Me.  ;-)
> 
>   Well, not just PowerPC, but also some other non-x86 platforms in general.
> One request I'd like to make to Red Hat (and any other package maintainers)
> is to please, please, please, don't make rpms ExclusiveArch unless absolutely
> necessary.  I realize that may already be the case, but I'm just putting my
[SNIP]
>   Also, will patches for non-x86 (even not [yet] supported) platforms be
> accepted?  I'm guessing that the answer is 'as time permits' which is fine,
> I would just like to know if it's worth submitting patches at all for Alpha,
> Arm, (as well as Sparc and PowerPC).  Given that Fedora is intended for
> the hobbyist, developer, enthusiast, I'm hoping that the answer is yes.
[SNIP]

Some of us actually remember when Red Hat had a sparc product :-(. 
Perhaps it is time for Aurora to merge back into the fold?  It seems 
that Fedora would be a perfect means to do this...

Cheers,
Nicholas






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