Fedora 12 end-of-life and rolling our own Fedoras (Re: Fedora 11 End of Life)

Athmane Madjoudj athmanem at gmail.com
Mon Jun 28 14:47:19 UTC 2010


On 06/28/2010 02:38 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com
> <mailto:joel.rees at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I suppose eol includes the PPC distro?
>
>     which means I'm going to have to either start learning how to roll my
>     own Fedora now, or start getting ready to switch back to openBSD on
>     my PPC machines.
>
>
> Instead of abandoning Linux, have you considered keeping your life
> simple by using a Linux distribution with PPC support?  Debian[1] has
> supported PPC[2] for years.
>
> This isn't an advocacy post, I'm simply pointing out that there are
> Linux based alternatives to the issue you're facing.
>

Give YDL[1] (Yellow Dog Linux) a try, it's basted on RHEL/CentOS (which 
are Fedora-based)

[1] http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

HTH
-- 
Athmane Madjoudj


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