-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlW4pLMACgkQuSPmkPhAW0qh5QD/d6V9lqPCgNyI6up1FWyH+mGP QrX9gmdCO63jKzOYkrcA/RlmyT6/fY5DtcbqFpJhcuEJ5eLjEITVduy7Zfzyp4Y1 =/lF8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----