Re: Fedora core for the Itanium

[Tim Burke <tburke redhat com>]

William Lovaton wrote:
>  
> How can I get test releases of RHEL 5 for testing
> purposes?  When are the test releases planned? 
Test releases for RHEL5 are not yet available.  They should be available 
in the summer.
> Is
> there any relevant mailing list?
>   
We'll post an invitation here.
> Now that I know there is Oracle support in Itanium I
> can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  The funny
> thing is that RHEL has Itanium support while Fedora
> doesn't.  Shouldn't that be the other way around?
>   
Fedora releases are driven by community interest and participation. 
Whereas RHEL releases are driven by business.  It is a lot of work to 
keep any release operational on a different architecture.  To date there 
hasn't been enough community interest and active involvement in order to 
get the job done.