Josh Boyer píše v St 30. 09. 2009 v 19:52 -0400:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:02:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Jeff Garzik jgarzik@pobox.com writes:
The lack of big endian builds by default is a notable loss, and will lead to a decline in software quality. I think this is a net-negative for Fedora.
I think the same, but it's getting harder to find PPC machines.
s/machines/desktop machines. You can find all kinds of PPC machines, just typically not in desktop form. The only new one that I am aware of is the fixstars.us Powerstation.
But there should be enough of older IBM Power4+ workstations (IntelliStation 275) with prices around 100 EUR (at least here in Europe) making it possible to buy one just for playing with.
Is there another big-endian platform that is on the upswing?
Not to my knowledge, but I haven't paid much attention to that. We do have secondary arches at least building, like sparc and s390x. I have a ppc effort 1/2 going.
Dan