[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC!

Tue Feb 22 23:53:01 CET 2011

I was watching now and I realized that both mageia and Mandriva have ports for
+both i586 and x64 architetures.
+
+When Mageia is released, she will compete directly with Mandriva, even though
+this is not your intention, Many Mandriva users will not want to migrate to
+Mageia and here is the clever.
+
+Nowadays, they are increasingly common netbooks and tablets with ARM processors.
+In addition, there are still people with PowerPC Macs or PlayStations, which
+also use this processor.
+
+If we port Mageia for these architectures, we can grab a larger share of users,
+including fans of Mandriva, which could run a distro similar to that love on
+machines that do not support it.
+
+Of course, this is not a trivial task and maybe cannot be done right now but
+think in the short term, this should be viable and will help spread the distro.
+It should not be difficult to find someone who has a computer with these
+features and want to build the distro. Of course, Mageia Foundation is busy with
+Alpha1 and a port would require more tests. Maybe for next year? I ask what are
+the difficulties in doing this?
+
+Of course we don't need have a large range of architetures such like Debian or
+NetBSD, but these - ARM and PowerPC - are essentials.
+
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