= Fedora 18 for PPC64 Release Announcement =
The Fedora for Power team is mooved to roll Fedora 18 for ppc64 out of
the barn and onto a mirror near you -
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/18/ppc64/
== New Features ==
All of the new features and benefits in the F18 release announcement
[
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F18_release_announcement] apply to this release, in
addition to the following features:
* Fedora 18 is the first release of Fedora for Power to contain packages
optimized for POWER7 processors. These optimized packages (indicated
by the ppc64p7 architecture) will be automatically installed on
systems which support them.
* Anaconda, the Fedora installation program, has been extensively
redesigned since Fedora 17. Documentation is available in the
Installation Guide
[
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/ch-...]
and is generally applicable to Fedora for PPC64.
== Known Issues ==
General Common F18 bugs [
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F18_bugs]
also apply to this release, but you should also be aware of the
following issues before tipping the cow:
* When using the new Fedora Upgrader tool, fedup, please ensure that
your system has all f17 updates applied. The upgrade process will hang
when it attempts to pivot into the upgrade image otherwise.
* fedup has not been tested in multipath configurations but we believe
it should work properly.
== Contributing ==
To contribute and get involved with Fedora for Power, please see our
project page at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC or
join us in #fedora-ppc on Freenode.
This announcement is also available at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC/F18_release_announce...
on behalf of the Fedora for Power team,
David
--
David Aquilina, RHCE
Release Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.