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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:16:24 -0500
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Jeremy Enos wrote:

> On 6/10/2011 12:10 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote:
>> On 6/10/2011 10:49 AM, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
>>> On 6/9/2011 5:43 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote:
>>>> Hi there-
>>>> Suppose I'm assembling a list of OS candidates to run on a very large
>>>> PPC64 based supercomputer- what are the odds of seeing a SL6 PPC64
>>>> version?
>>> As Connie mentioned, RH dropped ppc/power support in 6. Which I think is
>>> sad.
>>>
>>> For the record, however, I've used OpenBSD and Gentoo on ppc/power5
>>> systems and have had great luck!
>>>
>>> Randy
>>>
>> RH actually has an IBM POWER build upstream (I should have been more
>> specific).  Will CentOS make a build if RH does?
>>
> Correction, I meant will SL make a build if RH does.
>

We have no plans to build IBM POWER or any other PPC chipset version.

-connie

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