Announcing Fedora Core 6 Test 1 (5.90)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:04 -0600, Steve Lindemann wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 11:49 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Well I assumed it was, but then there was nothing to warn people about the
> >> test1 CDs so I thought I should check because it seemed unlikely it had been
> >> sorted for test1, and even more unlikely that the announce would neglect to
> >> mention this detail 
> > 
> > It wasn't sorted on purpose, and yes I forgot to mention this little
> > wrinkle.
> > 
> > Perhaps we can get a show of hands of all the people who actually care
> > about Fedora on i586 systems...
> > 
> > 
> 
> just a lurker without resources to participate... but...
> we don't much care about i586, but support for sparc would be really nice. 
>   We have some old e450's (and some others) we'd like to put to use without 
> going back and forth between OS's....  I know it's a pipe dream, but ya 
> gotta have a dream of some kind  8^)

If more people get behind Aurora Linux (Fedora for sparc systems -
http://auroralinux.org/) and build a community around it with package
maintainers, build systems etc its certainly possible. That's the way a
x86_64 release of Fedora was made. 

Rahul