On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:12:25PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > How was this handled in the case of PPC? My understanding is that due > to legal reasons the Fedora Project never officially provided access > to PPC machines. There were a number of machines that users could get > access to that were provided by individuals but these were never > officially provided by the Fedora project. It was very unsatisfactory. I had an account on David Woodhouse's PPC64 machine -- I think it was a PS3 -- but there was no root access so I couldn't install packages or test anything that needed root. > There's a number of cheap hardware becoming available such as the > Raspberry Pi as well as development boards that are available for > either purchase or people can apply to be part of a developer program > to get either discount or free hardware. How was this supported with > PPC? The PPC hardware was a lot more expensive (either Apple devices > or IBM) than the readily available ARM devices. PPC hardware was expensive. Even the Playstation 3 was an order of magnitude more expensive than the upcoming ARM hardware. Of course, as of *right now*, ARM hardware is also expensive (£250 for a minimal server). We are still waiting to see if Raspberry Pi really becomes mass-produced and available to all for cheap as chips. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
