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

Tue Feb 22 23:56:44 CET 2011

Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 23:53:01 schreef André Machado:
+> 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.
+
+iinm rtp (forgot real name, sorry) plans on doing ARM.
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