Fedora 21 for IBM System z release

[Chris Roberts]

I will work on this weekend

- Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Brockmeier" <jzb at redhat.com>
To: "Daniel Horak" <dahorak at redhat.com>, "Fedora Marketing team" <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 5:45:48 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora 21 for IBM System z release

Another new release announcement that would be great for Fedora Magazine
if somebody has time to put it into a post format.

Best,

jzb

On 12/18/2014 06:32 AM, Dan Horák wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Fedora 21 GA release for the IBM System z (s390x) is here. This time
> only 9 days after primary release. The difference against primary
> Fedora is smaller than it was in Fedora 20, but we are still missing
> packages related to nodejs (v8 engine not publicly ported to s390x) or
> golang (but work is being done on gcc-go, so this should change in the
> future) and most of ocaml modules (native port would be required). For
> details see http://fedora.danny.cz/s390/rebuild/koji-compare-f21.txt
> 
> The links to the actual release are here:
> 
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/21/s390x/ or
> 
> directly at
> 
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/21/Server/s390x/
> http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/21/Everything/s390x/os/
> 
> 
> Currently Fedora for s390x is available as the Server flavor (refer to
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next for more information). The
> first directory contains the installation tree as well as one DVD ISO
> with the complete release. There are plans on adding Cloud flavor in
> the future, but it depends on s390x support in several related
> projects. Everything as usual contains, well, everything. :)
> 
> For general Fedora documentation please see
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
> 
> and Fedora 21 common bugs are documented at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F21_bugs
> 
> 
> Additional information about known issues, the current progress and
> state for future release, where and how the team can be reached and
> just anything else Fedora on IBM System z related can be found here:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x/21
> 
> For architecture specific release notes, please read it as there are
> changes in the interactive installation process. It's a wiki so don't
> hesitate to add your knowledge there. You can find useful information
> also in the previous release notes linked from the current ones. 
> 
> More information about Fedora on IBM System z can be found at
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/s390x
> 
> 
> Our team got expanded during the last year so my thanks also go to the
> other team members and to everyone involved in making this happen!
> 
> Your Fedora/s390x Maintainers
> 


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