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@xxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:joel.rees@xxxxxxxxx>> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
