Fedora Working Groups: Call for Self-Nominations

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 13:17:23 UTC 2013


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Mihamina RKTMB <mihamina at rktmb.org> wrote:
> On 10/04/2013 02:49 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>What about Fedora Embedded? Do you plan to drop ARM support on
>>>> >>Fedora? I can't match small credit card size devices with either
>>>> >>Workstation, Server or Cloud group. Is this group list fixed or
>>>> >>could be extended and on what basis?
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>Mateusz Marzantowicz
>>>> >>
>>>
>>> >We just started to support ARM, I don't think we want to drop it.
>>> >I guess those three products are currently most important and
>>> >other products like Embedded should go into Spins category. At
>>> >least for now.
>>> >
>>
>> Yes, we're probably not going to be offering a direct embedded product
>> right from the get-go. However, the Fedora ARM project will definitely
>> have a place in the Server and Cloud variants, as several hardware
>> manufacturers have been announcing ARM-based servers.
>
>
> Also remember that ARM are not only for smell devices: http://goo.gl/qpDzy

That article is almost 2 years old, and an ARM based HP Moonshot
server is still not available.  While the intent of your message is
certainly true, you might do better by picking a better example like
the Calxeda ARM servers.  Fedora is already using those as the
builders in koji.

josh


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