PowerPC 32 Bit

[Britt Dodd]

I have voiced the same on this list, and it was brought to my attention
that in order to have a ppc32 variant of Fedora, packages would have to be
made by individuals running ppc32 equipment. It was noted that while
nothing prevents ppc32 Fedora from working, no verification was done to
ensure the packages would indeed work smoothly. Once I get settled into my
new house, I'll start looking into loading up Fedora and start working on
getting packages built for ppc32.


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Subsentient <thinkingrodent at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, I noticed that you have ceased to provide 32 Bit PowerPC ISOs. It's
> also clear that this was nearly unanimous since you went through with it,
> but I am very disappointed.
> I understand your reasoning, that 32 Bit PowerPC machines are mostly very
> old Apple Macintosh machines, and that's true. I have three of them, along
> with other older x86-32 boxes. I often get these machines brought to me,
> and they are always running a fossilized version of Mac OS X, usually
> Leopard.
>
> Firefox isn't even available for these machines anymore on their native
> OS. I love Fedora, and I always have, I left Ubuntu for it back when Fedora
> 9 was current and never looked back. To put a Debian base on these
> machines, to me, is a travesty, and Debian is all too focused on their
> experimental builds that use other kernels right now anyways. I am writing,
> obviously enough, in hope that this will make you reconsider support for 32
> bit PowerPC machines. You don't need to offer support of course. All I ask
> for is a network installation CD and current packages.
>
> Us PowerPC users are not dead yet, and those old Apple macs can still
> prove very very useful as a Linux box, especially as servers, as I know
> very well. Please don't abandon users like me who already feel abandoned by
> most distributions. I understand if you decide to reaffirm your position,
> but your user base for 32 bit PowerPC was significantly larger than
> you know.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Subsentient
>
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