Re: Fedora for non-intel platforms?

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On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 13:11 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:

> > I kind of vaugly remember seeing somewhere that there might be release
> > of Fedora other than i386 and x86_64.  Is this correct?  Were there
> > any plans on doing something like that, and are there still any plans
> > to do it?  I'm currently running Debian on UltraSPARC, but I'd love to
> > switch to Fedora, if it existed for SPARC/UltraSPARC platform...
> 
> Sort of...
> 
> There aren't releases as such, yet, but there are a number of ports
> floating around. Colin Charles seems keen on the PowerPC port
> ( http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html : he'll quite
> possibly pipe up in this discussion) and it looks like there are
> development trees for S390 and Itanium (presumably aimed at keeping
> Rawhide capable of providing RHEL ports for these servers).

You'll see FC3 ISOs in due time. We have problems with some G5 machines,
but otherwise, FC3 on PPC runs just fine

For a status report however, its not fine and dandy - you'd have to read
my blog, under linuxppc (or fedora people)
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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