imac g5 and current fedora

Fabian Arrotin fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net
Wed Feb 17 16:08:44 UTC 2010


Timo Schoeler wrote:
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> thus Matthew Miller spake:
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:26:39AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> Keep in mind that ppc/ppc64 were demoted to a secondary architecture
>>> starting with Fedora 13, so you don't really have an upgrade path at the
>>> moment.
>> Okay, thanks. Does secondary in this case mean "dead", or actually
>> secondary?
> 
> Is there any way to get it back to 'primary'? If there's spare time on
> my side any time soon I'd like to work on a CentOS 5 port of powerpc
> (especially as RHEL6 will be available for Power)...
> 
> Fedora isn't that far away, too.
> 
> Timo
> 

Well, there is progress on the centos-ppc port but we're lacking 
hardware resources ...
And don't forget that RHEL6 will only target IBM Power machines, so not 
the Macs

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