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