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Non-IntelNon-IntelPosted Nov 6, 2003 5:08 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)Parent article: Red Hat Linux ends - now what? Neglected in the discussion I have seen is the subject of non-Intel platforms. Red Hat Linux used to be available on several, but RH gradually dropped them as the release numbers grew. Fedora is released *only* for x86, and is compiled for the Pentium instruction set. There is no Opteron, no Alpha, no PowerPC, no ARM, no MIPS, no Itanic. At the moment, the lack of Opteron and ARM probably hurt most. Debian is on ARM, but not Opteron. Suse may be the only viable Opteron alternative, at the moment. Are the Fedora principals planning Opteron support in future releases?
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Non-Intel Posted Nov 6, 2003 7:56 UTC (Thu) by jwharmanny (guest, #971) [Link] For a RedHat PowerPC version, you should probably take a look at Yellow Dog. It is strongly based on RedHat Linux, but runs only on PowerPC hardware.
Non-Intel: Forthcomming (at least alpha) Posted Nov 6, 2003 11:05 UTC (Thu) by kreutzm (guest, #4700) [Link] At least for alpha, there are plans of some Red Hat engineers together with other Alpha developers to support an Alpha branch. See www.alphalinux.org for more details.
Non-Intel Posted Nov 6, 2003 13:52 UTC (Thu) by zonker (subscriber, #7867) [Link] Neglected in the discussion I have seen is the subject of non-Intel platforms.Yeah, I didn't go into non-Intel platforms because RHL proper has been more-or-less Intel-specific for a while now... that is, if you're using a recent release (say RHL8 or RHL9), you're pretty much on Intel. So Red Hat's end-of-life for the RHL products isn't going to be a big issue for Alpha, Sparc and PPC users because they weren't using current RH retail stuff anyway... It would be nice if Fedora can eventually branch out to other platforms, I've got an UltraSPARC 10 that I wouldn't mind running Fedora on. For now, though, I'm happy to use Debian with it.
Non-Intel Posted Nov 6, 2003 17:03 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] Fedora is released *only* for x86, and is compiled for the Pentium instruction setA minor point perhaps, but there are still i586, i686, and Athlon-specific kernel packages in the Severn beta, so they are probably in FC1 as well.
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