Karanbir Singh wrote:
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 ?
It's a Mac Mini G4 currently running Fedora.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0 cpu : 7447A, altivec supported clock : 1333.333328MHz revision : 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105) bogomips : 82.94 timebase : 41600571 platform : PowerMac model : PowerMac10,2 machine : PowerMac10,2 motherboard : PowerMac10,2 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh detected as : 287 (Unknown Intrepid-based) pmac flags : 00000000 L2 cache : 512K unified pmac-generation : NewWorld
AFAIK this is a 32-bit CPU.
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
Ah. I did not realise that. I assumed they supported both.
As I said, I'd be glad to help in anyway I can. s390 is something I've always mean't to get into too, running under hercules; but never got round to it yet.