Fedora core for the Itanium
Tim Burke
tburke at redhat.com
Mon Mar 27 13:20:32 UTC 2006
William Lovaton wrote:
>
> How can I get test releases of RHEL 5 for testing
> purposes? When are the test releases planned?
Test releases for RHEL5 are not yet available. They should be available
in the summer.
> Is
> there any relevant mailing list?
>
We'll post an invitation here.
> Now that I know there is Oracle support in Itanium I
> can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The funny
> thing is that RHEL has Itanium support while Fedora
> doesn't. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
>
Fedora releases are driven by community interest and participation.
Whereas RHEL releases are driven by business. It is a lot of work to
keep any release operational on a different architecture. To date there
hasn't been enough community interest and active involvement in order to
get the job done.
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