On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:12:25PM +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> How was this handled in the case of PPC? My understanding is that due
> to legal reasons the Fedora Project never officially provided access
> to PPC machines. There were a number of machines that users could get
> access to that were provided by individuals but these were never
> officially provided by the Fedora project.
It was very unsatisfactory. I had an account on David Woodhouse's
PPC64 machine -- I think it was a PS3 -- but there was no root access
so I couldn't install packages or test anything that needed root.
David's machines were usually Apple G5s. If he gave you access to a PS3,
he must have disliked you at that particular moment. Those were some of
the worst machines I have ever worked with because of their hardware
limitations.
josh