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Fedora 13 Alpha releasedFedora 13 Alpha releasedPosted Mar 9, 2010 16:34 UTC (Tue) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839)Parent article: Fedora 13 Alpha released
One thing that is mentioned nowhere - PowerPC support has been dropped. Which is a shame because I'll probably have to move to Ubuntu after 12 years with Red Hat.
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Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 9, 2010 16:44 UTC (Tue) by dgilmore (subscriber, #40144) [Link]
PPC is still being supported as part of our secondary arch initiative.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures we are still working out some road bumps but we will have a Fedora 13 ppc release.
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 9, 2010 18:27 UTC (Tue) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839) [Link]
As far as I see the fedora ppc buildsystem is there and working, but there's no repository or installable images available anymore. Which makes it rather hard for me to help or test :)
Ubuntu PPC, while officially also being community-supported, has both.
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 9, 2010 18:30 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
The secondary architecture systems require more community participation and
you can get in touch with the existing teams to find out how you can help out and I am sure that would be very welcome.
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 18, 2010 22:18 UTC (Thu) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839) [Link]
I did, but there was a complete lack of response:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2010-Marc...
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 28, 2010 21:52 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
You have your response. Patience is a virtue esp if you volunteering to
contribute towards PPC support :-)
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 9, 2010 16:45 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] One thing that is mentioned nowhere - PowerPC support has been dropped. Which is a shame because I'll probably have to move to Ubuntu after 12 years with Red Hat. Having just inherited couple of old G4 iMacs, I had the same concern. However, PowerPC Fedora isn't dead -- it's just no longer a primary architecture. This means that as long as there are enough people interested in keeping it going, it will be. (And if there are not enough people interested in doing that, well....)
PowerPC distros Posted Mar 9, 2010 16:54 UTC (Tue) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]
To the best of my knowledge, Ubuntu dropped PowerPC a while back... or at least I don't see it on their website for download.
PowerPC distros Posted Mar 9, 2010 18:32 UTC (Tue) by alexbk (subscriber, #37839) [Link]
It's a bit hidden, but they do have it all the way to the latest verison
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ I tried the live-cd of 9.10 (something Fedora never provided actually) and it booted all the way to the desktop just fine. Not bad for an unsupported architecture.
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 9, 2010 17:05 UTC (Tue) by jordi (subscriber, #14325) [Link]
As far as I can tell, Ubuntu themselves dropped PPC more than 3 years ago (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC). If you want an officially supported distro, Debian is probably your current strong bet.
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 11, 2010 23:41 UTC (Thu) by jmorris42 (subscriber, #2203) [Link]
> PowerPC support has been dropped.
Kinda hard to get very worked up over a dead platform being dropped. The Playstation 3 was the last hardware a mortal could buy and the current revision of it dropped Linux support.
Apple hasn't made any PPC hardware for years so that leaves a few embedded users who don't need a full distro like Fedora and a few blades that still use Power/Cell.
PowerPC is fast heading to the graveyard of good CPU arches that went up against the Wintel juggernaught and failed. Alpha, MC680X0 and SPARC await the arrival of PowerPC into silicon heaven.
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 12, 2010 10:59 UTC (Fri) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Not really true for game consoles though: the top selling consoles (Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Wii) are all based on PowerPC architecture, and in fact Microsoft moved from x86 in the original Xbox to PowerPC in its successor. It's also used in IBM's mainframe architectures (zSeries, iSeries or whatever) as well as AIX boxes (pSeries).
Fedora 13 Alpha released Posted Mar 24, 2010 12:27 UTC (Wed) by robbe (subscriber, #16131) [Link]
There are also other appliances based on PowerPC. Examples that I've seen
myself are a video conferencing server and a wireless access point manager.
Sparc is also alive and kicking, albeit in an even smaller niche.
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