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.