On 04/17/2013 03:21 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 04/17/2013 01:52 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:28:12PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
which talks about F18-beta. So what do I have to do to build a F18
production image and is there anything else I need to do?
Oh, the primary use of this system will be as a backup/archive server.
AFAIK it will not be supported anymore starting with Fedora 19,
therefore you might consider setting up a different distribution.
That's correct, F-18 will be the last supported armv5tel release. It
will be supported for the entire mainline support cycle so until a
month after the release of Fedora 20.
Facinating.
Any writeups as to why Fedora is exiting what will be a major part of the
computing landscape in coming years?
We're not exiting the ARM landscape, we're discontinuing support for
older ARM chipsets based on the ARMv5 designs. We're doing this
because there was only every very few devices that were workable with
Fedora (256Mb+ RAM and some other bits) and ARM has discontinued the
ARMv5 platforms because they've been replaced with equivalent
cost/feature/power equivalents in the ARMv7 Cortex-Ax series of
processors. They also are dependent on older HW like DDR1 RAM which is
also getting more expensive.
What other options are there out there?
ARMv7 hardware such as a BeagleBone, PandaBoard, a number of different
Marvell devices based on the Armada chipset.
There's also the upcoming aarch64 platforms.
I meant distros :)
But with this information, I will be staying with Fedora, but Redsleeve
looks interesting (I run a number of Centos boxes here and just brought
up my 1st ClearOS box). But with only two developers and everything
still 'by hand', it reminds me too much of my Whitehat days.
I looked at OpenWRT for pogoplug and got scared off. I am not a role
your own kernel kind of person.
So I will be looking at alternative boxes probably the end of the year.
I still have too much to upgrade here. But I would be interested in
some router/firewalls that I could run something like Shorewall on. Or
something with a GUI. Build on Fedora. 3 boxes. One with 3 interfaces
(one to my ISP and two to the others) and the others with at least 6
interfaces. 100Mb is fast enough. My single Juniper SSG5 is becoming a
problem.
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