On Friday 04 February 2005 17:42, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Elliot Lee <sopwith@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > I'm not yet sure whether we'll have PowerPC included - it would help to > > have someone from that team give a summary of the status of rawhide on > > that arch. > > I just got an Opteron box. It would be real nice if the FC4 test 1 disks > included 64-bit kernel RPMS and a handful of 64-bit builds for the most > speed-critical stuff (Perl & Python interpreters, Open Office, etc.). Yes, I have an Opteron system also and have been impressed with its relative performance (even with my Opteron 140). For FC2 and FC3, the x86_64 has been a fully "tier 1" "supported" architecture and I would expect this to continue with FC4 [FC1 was also supported but just a bit later]. The folks behind Fedora Core are trying to pick architectures for which there are a large number of potential users. Thus, you have i386 (i586 and i686), x86_64, and (maybe) the ppc. For x86_64, almost all of the packages are built as x86_64 (not just the kernel and a few other packages). Included are some i386 packages since the system supports dual mode running of 32 bit or 64 bit applications and there are a few applications (notably openoffice.org) that are still 32 bit only. -- Gene
