Fedora 14 on System Z alive and kicking!

[Phil Knirsch]

Hi everyone!

The Fedora s390x team[1] is happy to announce the first installable 
Fedora on IBM System Z (aka s390x) since Fedora 6!

It's been a long time in the making, but after several Fedora releases 
since we started getting everything up into shape again we've finally 
reached a point where we can provide an installable version of Fedora on 
IBM System Z again.

As it's not a final release yet and we still need to have a few minor 
workarounds in the installer image the location isn't yet in the typical 
release directory for secondary archs. We expect this to be a thing of 
the past once we get that last few fixes upstream and the composes 
running in a consistent and permanent fashion (real soon now!!!).

The documentation has of course also been updated and a whole section 
has been added in the README on how to install your own release (not 
just running a hercules image as with our Fedora 11 preview version).

Hercules images and instructions on how to run that or how to install it 
yourself can be downloaded from
   http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/spins/S390/

Individual packages are available at
   http://s390.koji.fedoraproject.org/mash/rawhide/s390x/os/

More info will be added in the next few days at
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x

If you're interested, please join our mailing list at
   https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-s390x
or our IRC channel #fedora-s390x on freenode.net


Thanks & regards, Phil

[1] List of current team:
*  Karsten Hopp Secondary Arch Maintainer (nickname Kick_ in 
#fedora-s390x on IRC)
* Dan Horák
* Dennis Gilmore
* Brad Hinson
* Justin Payne (nickname kurgan in #fedora-s390x on IRC)
* Phil Knirsch
* David Cantrell (interest in anaconda support for s390)

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