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<H1>[Mageia-dev] We must port Mageia to ARM and PowerPC!</H1>
<B>Maarten Vanraes</B>
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<I>Tue Feb 22 23:56:44 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 23:53:01 schreef André Machado:
><i> I was watching now and I realized that both mageia and Mandriva have ports
</I>><i> for both i586 and x64 architetures.
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</I>><i> When Mageia is released, she will compete directly with Mandriva, even
</I>><i> though this is not your intention, Many Mandriva users will not want to
</I>><i> migrate to Mageia and here is the clever.
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</I>><i> Nowadays, they are increasingly common netbooks and tablets with ARM
</I>><i> processors. In addition, there are still people with PowerPC Macs or
</I>><i> PlayStations, which also use this processor.
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</I>><i> If we port Mageia for these architectures, we can grab a larger share of
</I>><i> users, including fans of Mandriva, which could run a distro similar to
</I>><i> that love on machines that do not support it.
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</I>><i> Of course, this is not a trivial task and maybe cannot be done right now
</I>><i> but think in the short term, this should be viable and will help spread
</I>><i> the distro. It should not be difficult to find someone who has a computer
</I>><i> with these features and want to build the distro. Of course, Mageia
</I>><i> Foundation is busy with Alpha1 and a port would require more tests. Maybe
</I>><i> for next year? I ask what are the difficulties in doing this?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Of course we don't need have a large range of architetures such like Debian
</I>><i> or NetBSD, but these - ARM and PowerPC - are essentials.
</I>
iinm rtp (forgot real name, sorry) plans on doing ARM.
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