Hi All, Due to some unforeseen circumstances, there will not be an F11 Alpha release for PowerPC. Aside from the normal issues that effect all the architectures, there were two things that contributed to this being the case: 1) The ppc64 kernels have not booted in quite some time. This is due to yaboot not being able to handle a kernel with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y being set because of the differences that creates in the elf file type. I fixed yaboot today and the ppc64 kernel will again at least try to boot. However... 2) While everyone was rejoicing over the upstream merge of squashfs into the kernel (myself included), we didn't quite realize that squashfs-tools does not work on big-endian architectures. This prevents ananconda from building the images needed for daily rawhide boot.isos and the actual composed install media. This is an upstream problem, and I have emailed them to see if there is anything I can do to help. However given the timeframe in question, it is quite unlikely that this will be fixed before the Alpha date. Even if it was, the lack of testing since Jan 12 would lead me to hesitate doing an Alpha release. I'll work on this as best I can. Hopefully by the time Beta rolls around we'll be back on track. josh
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