Announcement: Release of Fedora 16 on Power

[Timo Schoeler]

On 12/23/2011 04:45 PM, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> As a holiday present the Fedora Secondary Arch team for Power is
> proud to announce the release of Fedora 16 on Power.
>
> Grab it while it's fresh from here:
>
> https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/16/ppc64/
>
> under releases/16/Fedora/ppc64
>
> or directly from
>
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/16/Fedora/ppc64
>
>  We managed to squash almost all of the few remaining issues we've
> had after Beta and have documented workarounds for the remaining
> issue we still have in the release notes text which can be found
> here:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_PPC_release_notes
>
> The most noticeable ones are the fixes to the radeon and the mga
> drivers to work a lot better out of the box on Power now, see:
>
> 746410 [MGA_CARD_TYPE_G550] Add /lib/firmware/matrox/g400_warp.fw
> into initramfs 766862 Power Mac G5 locks at boot (radeon.agpmode=-1
> fixes it)
>
> Over the last months the team as well as the package maintainers put
> it a fantastic effort to get everything into shape to get us to this
> point where we can declare this to be a release.
>
> We'd also like to thank everyone who has been willing to test our
> Alpha and Beta versions and give us great feedback and helped to make
> this a pretty solid release.
>
> It's probably not perfect, but in the light of it being the first
> release since Fedora 12 we're pretty happy with how it turned out in
> the end.
>
> We'll also be releasing updates via the normal means in regular
> intervals, just like on the primary arch, so working with Fedora 16
> on Power should give you the same experience as on Intel platforms.
>
> For Fedora-17 we're aiming to flash out the last few minor issues
> we've seen lurking around and to make sure we're as close as possible
> to primary arch from a package build state.
>
> With all that being said i'd like to wish everyone happy holidays and
> a happy new year from me and the whole Fedora Secondary Arch team for
> Power.
>
> See you next year!
>
> Thanks & regards, Phil

Thanks to the whole team for this great present! :)

As soon as I'm back in the office next week, I'll give it a shot on both
my 275 and 285.

Best & merry x-mas,

Timo