Fedora Marketing; PPC G4 issues
Fedora super-secret-project
So, the wiki is setup, and a big thank you to Seth for that. If you’re reading this and are mildly interested in promoting Fedora, increasing its usage, and get your hands dirty harnessing folk, the fedora-marketing-list is a good place to hang out at. For the various brain dumps that Jack/me have come up with, read the August archives. We also have fedora-marketing in Bugzilla to track “bugs” for the project – which will have to get a webpage and all the material from the brain dumps up to spec. There’s been no PR/launch of this project yet, but let’s see if this “post” gets more folk on the list (with ideas, etc…)
Fedora PPC update…
So, if you’ve got some funky new G4, especially if its a laptop, the duke tree will most likely not work for you. It needs some newer support for laptops as well as some Branch Target ICache (BTIC) disabling. Of course naturally, you’d only find out when folks are actually doing an install :P
There might also be a bug in parted in that tree. “Attempt to read sectors 2-3 outside of partition on /dev/hda”. Bah. Can’t say if this will appear on all new laptops/desktops, but its definitely a possible problem that one should be aware of. mac-fdisk is what needs to be used in that case (use it manually in a console, so when anaconda gets to it, its all magically there).
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