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

Joel Rees joel.rees at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 01:05:15 UTC 2010


On Jun 29, 2010, at 12:29 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

> On 06/28/2010 09:38 AM, 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.
>>
>> [1] http://www.debian.org/
>> [2] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/
>
>
> Perhaps it would be better to advocate the Fedora secondary arch for
> PowerPC instead: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-ppc

Woops. That's not the secondary arch pages. Still points us to F12,  
which I suppose it should.

It would be nice if that page contained a warning about EOL. Should/ 
could I volunteer to edit the page?

> It's no longer a primary architecture, so its releases tend to lag
> behind, but it's still probably what Joel was actually looking for.

What I was looking for was, well, I just saw it a minute ago. It  
wasn't this page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs#Secondary_Arches

That still doesn't show the PPC secondary arch.  (More things to  
edit.) Here it is:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures#Secondary_Architectures

I don't remember how I found that page.

But, if I take that link,

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC

just tells me how to install from an install disc. Has a note about  
the installer for Fedora 9 having an error. And there's information  
in there about /etc/xorg.conf, which, of course, hasn't existed since  
at least F11.

(Stupid changes to the X11 configuration, drive me nuts trying to  
figure out what to tweak where, and the "new" alternative to the Mac- 
style ctrl-click for context menus seems to be a really funky  
combination of select-and-try-to-beat-the-auto-click-while-you-try-to- 
hit-shift-F10 or something like that. Crude, clumsy, and it doesn't  
work where you need it the most. Sorry. I didn't want to file a bug  
until I found out what the proper set-up was supposed to be, but I  
never could find the proper set-up.)

So, is the PPC SIG like defunct or something?

Really hard to find any information at all on the PPC stuff any more.

Hmm. Going back and re-reading the architectures page, I see there is  
a generic list for secondary archs. I'll check it out.

Heh. Yeah. That's a list that won't take a lot of time to read  
either. Maybe I can find some people to contact through it, though,  
there seem to be some threads on the subject back in March and  
September.

ERk. I don't see PPC at

http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/development/

either. Sigh.

Joel Rees



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