Fedora 16 Alpha on Power ready for testing!

[Phil Knirsch]

Good news everyone!

At long last the Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power proudly presents 
the Fedora 16 Alpha release.

It's still hot, so grab it while you can from here (in case you have 
appropriate hardware, obviously):

https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/16-Alpha/ppc64/

But beware, it's still a bit rough around the edges and needs some more 
TLC, but hey, it's an Alpha, right? ;)

More details about this Alpha release can be found here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Alpha_PPC_release_notes

and we do have an official release announcement as well here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Alpha_PPC_release_announcement

(both of which have shamelessly been taken from the primary arch Fedora 
16 wikis and modified to reflect the state of Power architecture, known 
issues and some workarounds for those).

I want to thank everyone involved in making this happen, it's been a 
pretty long stretch with quite a few hurdles, but we finally got the 
first big milestone done towards the goal to get a Fedora 16 on Power out.

Next up obviously Beta and then RC, so stay tuned for more updates in 
the near future!

As usual, the whole team can typically be found on the #fedora-ppc IRC 
channel on FreeNode and via our email list:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ppc

And we have our Secondary Arch wiki with (decently) updated information:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC

Thanks & regards, Phil

[Yann Droneaud]

Hi,

Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 19:34 +0200, Phil Knirsch a écrit :
> Good news everyone!
>
> At long last the Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power proudly presents 
> the Fedora 16 Alpha release.

Great !
> It's still hot, so grab it while you can from here (in case you have 
> appropriate hardware, obviously):
>
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/16-Alpha/ppc64/

Is it intended to work only on 64bits systems ?

It is not explicitly explained in the announcement.

Regards.

[Phil Knirsch]

On 10/26/2011 02:37 PM, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 19:34 +0200, Phil Knirsch a écrit :
> > Good news everyone!
> >
> > At long last the Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power proudly presents
> > the Fedora 16 Alpha release.
>
> Great !
> > It's still hot, so grab it while you can from here (in case you have
> > appropriate hardware, obviously):
> >
> > https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/16-Alpha/ppc64/
>
> Is it intended to work only on 64bits systems ?
>
> It is not explicitly explained in the announcement.

With the limited amount people we have working on it and the focus to 
concentrate on current hardware we are only able to provide the work to 
get ppc64 working right now.

That being said Karsten Hopp tends to generate mash trees and images for 
32bit when he has some spare cycles (which were very few in the last 
weeks), but they are completely untested.

But if anyone wants to put the effort in and install, test, debug and 
fix the 32bit versions we'd be more than happy to add the patches to 
make it work.

Thanks & regards, Phil

[Karsten Hopp]

Am 26.10.2011 14:46, schrieb Phil Knirsch:
> On 10/26/2011 02:37 PM, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le mardi 25 octobre 2011 à 19:34 +0200, Phil Knirsch a écrit :
> > > Good news everyone!
> > >
> > > At long last the Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power proudly presents
> > >  the Fedora 16 Alpha release.
> >
> > Great !
> > > It's still hot, so grab it while you can from here (in case you have
> > >  appropriate hardware, obviously):
> > >
> > > https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/16-Alpha/ppc64/
> >
> > Is it intended to work only on 64bits systems ?
> >
> > It is not explicitly explained in the announcement.
>
> With the limited amount people we have working on it and the focus to
> concentrate on current hardware we are only able to provide the work to
> get ppc64 working right now.
>
> That being said Karsten Hopp tends to generate mash trees and images for
> 32bit when he has some spare cycles (which were very few in the last
> weeks), but they are completely untested.
>
> But if anyone wants to put the effort in and install, test, debug and
> fix the 32bit versions we'd be more than happy to add the patches to
> make it work.
>
> Thanks&  regards, Phil

We already have 32bit PPC install media and trees. You can grab them from

https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/16-Alpha/ppc/

But as we don't have the older hardware and focus on 64bit, these are untested and we have to rely on users like you to get feedback and patches.

Karsten