Stewart Williams wrote:
I have a system with a PowerPC cpu which I'd like to run CentOS on in a production environment (albeit for a home personal server.)
Does anyone know if the CentOS team are actually going to support PPC?
yes
I have found a page which states release 4 is in beta[1]. But little else. Is there lack of demand for support for this aging arch?
somewhat. About the same level of demand there is for CentOS s390
Is there a lack of volunteers?
I'd be willing to test the releases and bug report, or help out in anyway I can.
sounds good. What kind of a machine do you have ?
Fedora has good support, however, I don't really want to update the system often.
[1] http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=65
You should be clear that there is no real 'ppc' support in EL at all, they only support a ppc64 based cpu. However, ppc support is something that I plan on getting into CentOS. Timeline ? perhaps in sync with 5.3
- KB