Op dinsdag 22 februari 2011 23:53:01 schreef André Machado: > I was watching now and I realized that both mageia and Mandriva have ports > for both i586 and x64 architetures. > > When Mageia is released, she will compete directly with Mandriva, even > though this is not your intention, Many Mandriva users will not want to > migrate to Mageia and here is the clever. > > Nowadays, they are increasingly common netbooks and tablets with ARM > processors. In addition, there are still people with PowerPC Macs or > PlayStations, which also use this processor. > > If we port Mageia for these architectures, we can grab a larger share of > users, including fans of Mandriva, which could run a distro similar to > that love on machines that do not support it. > > Of course, this is not a trivial task and maybe cannot be done right now > but think in the short term, this should be viable and will help spread > the distro. It should not be difficult to find someone who has a computer > with these features and want to build the distro. Of course, Mageia > Foundation is busy with Alpha1 and a port would require more tests. Maybe > for next year? I ask what are the difficulties in doing this? > > Of course we don't need have a large range of architetures such like Debian > or NetBSD, but these - ARM and PowerPC - are essentials.
iinm rtp (forgot real name, sorry) plans on doing ARM.
