Long time in the making, but at long last after 6 weeks of hard work the Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power finally managed to get the Fedora 16 Beta release done! Available from mirrors now here: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/16/ppc64/ under releases/test/16-Beta/ or directly from here: http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/16-Beta/ A lot of the issues we still had for Alpha have been fixed since then. The most noticeable ones are: * Firefox-8 works now on 32bit and 64bit out of the box * Gnome3 Desktop no more segfaulting * Qt4 not segfaulting all of KDE anymore * Various anaconda issues (serial console, garbled fonts to name a few) * Filesystem encryption password check working now * Numerous rebuild failures More details about this Beta release can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_Beta_PPC_release_notes and we do have an official release announcement as well here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Beta_PPC_release_announcement I want to thank everyone involved in making this happen, it's been a pretty long stretch with quite a few hurdles, but we finally got the first big milestone done towards the goal to get a Fedora 16 on Power out. We're working full steam now to get GA done by 21. of December. As usual, the whole team can typically be found on the #fedora-ppc IRC channel on FreeNode and via our email list: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ppc And we have our Secondary Arch wiki with (decently) updated information: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC Thanks & regards, Phil -- Philipp Knirsch | Tel.: +49-711-96437-470 Supervisor Core Services | Fax.: +49-711-96437-111 Red Hat GmbH | Email: Phil Knirsch <pknirsch@xxxxxxxxxx> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web: http://www.redhat.com/ D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
