Fedora Core 5 Test3 available today
The wait will (hopefully) be worth it. Although there were conflicting dates mentioned back and forth when FC5T3 would be released, the powers that be made some sturdy comments that it will be today. I will start with trying it out on an RS/6000 model 43P-150 which is a PPC box. To be continued…
Update: well, so far so good. FC5T3 installed out of the box on my RS/6000 43P-150. Kudo’s to all the people who put in the major effort to support this arch! Next stop is rebuilding my Asterisk rpms on it.
Update2: things are not going well with zaptel on FC5t3 PPC 32 bit. Appareantly the zaptel modules don’t like being compiled with -fstack-protector. Comments from Arjan van de Ven (a Red Hat kernel guru) suggest the zaptel Makefile is on crack. Unfortunately my kernel module Makefile voodoo (or lack thereof) is insufficient to currently solve this one. So I need to do some more research to understand what is really causing this problem. A workaround could be to just disable the -fstack-protector thingy and even that doesn’t seem to easy.