Help - Grey Screen

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Thu Nov 2 14:18:26 UTC 2006


James Wilkinson wrote:
> Andy Green wrote:
>> PowerPC appears to be, well, not dying, but moving into non-PC niches like 
>> Xilinx FPGAs and Playstation 3,
> 
> And it's still widely used in IBM servers. Don't forget the IBM servers.

I didn't know that, thanks for the info.

> This isn't a major market for Fedora, but it *is* a sizeable market for
> RHEL, which is a derivative of the same "rawhide" development tree as
> Fedora. So Red Hat has a vested interest in keeping the development tree
> supporting PowerPC -- all that's needed is for Fedora to keep tracking
> and fixing bugs (so report any you find), and producing releases.

Hm well RHEL has KDE, Fedora is distancing itself from that.

-Andy




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