Fedora Extras development/ppc is readyish
I’ve been sick with splitting, massive headaches, for the past couple of days. So I spent most of yesterday in bed. And today, I’ve taken on watching One Tree Hill, and am down 6 16 episodes. Sorry Warren, I haven’t started on Battlestar Galactica. I finally also finished reading Cryptonomicon, after several months of carrying it around with me. Yesterday, we caught Hating Alison Ashely; it was quite bad, so do skip it.
Malaysia
In Microsoft’s monthly offering of “Why Windows is better than Linux for the enterprise”, they’ve got more FUD about Milinux Networks expanding their market reach by using commercial software. So, it seems that commercial success can only be gotten with Microsoft, and they even cite Red Hat changing its business model. And they say that RHL has no more bugfixes, security updates, etc… that they need to provide it - well, howdy ho, lots of RHL users migrated to RHEL, wasn’t that good enough? Read the thread at myoss.
IBM sees Malaysia as the fastest growing Linux adopter in the ASEAN region.
And for a little bit more alarming news, it seems the government of Malaysia might only be standardising on Novell SuSE Linux now. pclow explains a bit about it, and I’d like to chase it up with folks at Bytecraft, Asix (c’mon Ditesh!), and the rest of the companies…. that were once standing behind RH, but now ditched it for Novell/SLES.
Fedora Extras/ppc
With great help from Seth on IRC, and his useful post, mach now runs on ppc, and Extras ppc32 is building now for FC4 test1 (albeit with dwmw2’s scripts). I haven’t gotten around to getting the build scripts that Seth has working well and automated for me just yet. To set mach up, follow Seth’s instructions (rebuild mach on your arch), then add your user to the mach group. And the history dump should be all you need to see if mach works. Don’t forget to have fedora-development-ppc in /etc/mach/dist.d as well.
So I present to you, extras/development/ppc. They are unsigned, because I lack a signing key, they’re semi-incomplete, because of packages that have deps that didn’t build, but the aims are to get them fixed soon. I’m now your ppc human buildsystem (or should that be bigmac, which goes on chugging away).
ICDL
I proposed getting the International Computer Driving License Linux-ified a while back. Linux-aus, education officer and what not. It seems that Canonical finally came through, and the Learn Linux people should be getting such work done. Nice.