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On 07/29/2015 12:16 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 28/07/15 14:21, Nuno Fernandes wrote:
Hello,
I'm more interested on using a centos brand linux. I would prefer to help creating such a distro than using one that i don't know how it's being made, mantained, monitored, etc.
If for some reason i start using your distribution and later on your company is bought and stops being mantained and shipping it i'm in the dark...
Is there a PPC64 Sig out there?
yes!
We are getting things together ( well, I just wrote up what should be an announcement to go out in the next few days ).
We've got a PoC done for both BE and LE ppc64 - the ppc multilib stuff needs some level of attention, but we will find out about that soon.
There are a few ways to get involved, either shadow the builds on your own hardware - or work through build fails in the central service, helping rectify things. You can also help with testing the distro ( including the installer ), and most importantly, you can help with docs around the project, the code, and how other people can get involved as well.
As a free win, it would be great to see a group of people help bridge the SIG content from x86 over to these arch's as well - but we are a few miles away from having a usable base first.
Is there a possibility to keep older hardware supported as well, maybe with some kind of "CentOS plus Kernel"?
RHEL 7 dropped support for Power6 and Power5, while Fedora still runs on them. Pretty decent hardware.
Could help on this, I got a bunch of Power 5 machines, even in 19" forma t.
Best,
Timo