By: Brent Baude.   On May 11th, Fedora announced a beta for F17 for ppc64.  This is another milestone in the march towards Fedora 17 for the powerpc architecture.   The beta announcement itself can be found here ->  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Beta_PPC_Announcement   Yeah, lots of packages have been updated and so forth but there are two interesting pieces I'd like to draw some attention towards.  Firstly, adoption of grub2 continues in the beta.  We smoothed out some of the rough edges since the alpha timeframe and have a number... [More]

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  By: Brent Baude.   Fedora has made their alpha release for Fedora 17 on ppc64 available.  The release notes are publicly available and describe where to get the content (.iso).  If you are familiar with the Fedora, please make sure you read the release notes because the initial loading of the installation image is significantly different than past releases and impacts things like network-based install.   Fedora 17 is the second release for the ppc64 architecture and is proving to be quite stable.  Feel free to grab a copy and give it a try. ... [More]

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By: Brent Baude.   Fedora 16 has now been officially released!  The release notes can be found at:   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_16_PPC_release_notes   Most of the imperfections mentioned in the release notes are around graphics/video cards.  This is something that will be looked at closer in upcoming Fedora releases.  Most significantly, this marks the first official Fedora release for ppc64 since the Fedora 12 time frame.  Our preliminary feedback on Fedora for ppc64 has been positive.  There a number of instances where it is being... [More]

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By: Brent Baude.   Fedora has announced a ppc64 Fedora 16 beta last week.  The announcement can be found at the following URL:   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F16_Beta_PPC_release_announcement There are many improvements between the Alpha and Beta for ppc64.  Many of them revolve around automated console detection for IBM ppc64 hardware.  The desktop is also improved and we now have a functioning Firefox.    This is a community-based effort and as such we encourage folks to participate. The best mechanism to speak with the team behind this... [More]

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p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } By: Brent Baude.     I just wanted to bring some attention to the recent announcement around a Fedora 16 Alpha for ppc64.  Detials can be found in the release announcement .  While this is only an Alpha, it has proven to be a rather decent effort and quite stable. For those with ppc64 hardware, I would encourage you to check out the release notes for the alpha.  This should give you some insight into any problems we have already identified. To find out where to download the Fedora... [More]

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