Andy Green wrote:
> PowerPC appears to be, well, not dying, but moving into non-PC niches like
> Xilinx FPGAs and Playstation 3,
And it's still widely used in IBM servers. Don't forget the IBM servers.
IBM has four main server families -- zSeries (mainframes), iSeries
(AS/400 and Linux), pSeries (AIX and Linux), and xSeries (PC based).
Both iSeries and pSeries use PowerPC-compatible processors. IBM is
continuing to put a lot of resources into developing this family.
This isn't a major market for Fedora, but it *is* a sizeable market for
RHEL, which is a derivative of the same "rawhide" development tree as
Fedora. So Red Hat has a vested interest in keeping the development tree
supporting PowerPC -- all that's needed is for Fedora to keep tracking
and fixing bugs (so report any you find), and producing releases.
> so I guess the main worry would be about Fedora
> eventually dropping support for it in the next years.
So I don't think that's likely.
James.
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