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Powerful kitties in a box!

Or to be more clear:

The Fedora Secondary Arch Team for Power is proud to announce the availability of Fedora 19 "Schroedinger's cat" Alpha release for Power! 

  https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/19-Alpha/ppc64/

Then select your favourite mirror and follow this path: 

  releases/test/19-Alpha/ppc64/

Want to see more cute power(ful) kittens? Then go ahead and try it out and let us know what works, and even more importantly, what doesn't!

What is the Alpha Release?

Fedora 19 adds many new and improved features for a variety of audiences. The release annoucement for the primary architecture already listed all the cool new features and commone known issues and bugs, so we won't repeat them here in the Power specific announcement.

A complete list with details of each new feature is available here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList

And the release announcement for the primary architecture here:

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-April/003148.html

Supported Architectures

Only 64bit machines (Power5 or newer) are supported, but we still provide 32bit packages. The last Fedora release with 32bit boot images was Fedora 17. Although it might be possible to install a 32bit F17 release and then update with the latest packages, this is not supported by the Fedora PPC developers anymore. Interested developers might also be able to create their own 32bit boot images for the latest Fedora release with pungi but this is also not supported by the Fedora PPC developers.

Fedora 18 and newer also includes several optimized packages for Power7 machines. These will be installed automatically if a Power7 processor is detected.

Note on performance

Fedora development releases use a kernel with extra debug information to help us understand and resolve issues faster; however, this can have a significant impact on performance. Refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelDebugStrategy for more details on the kernel debug strategy. You can boot with slub_debug=- or use the kernel from nodebug repository to disable the extra debug info.

Known Issues and Bugs for Power

We know that many of you are motivated to download and try the Alpha release of "Schroedinger's cat"; to help you avoid stepping into any issues, we'd like to highlight a few specific issues, before you move on to the downloads page. Information about these, and other common bugs, including bug reports and workarounds for known issues where available, are detailed on the Common F19 Bugs page, as well as in the Alpha release notes; links to both pages are provided below.

  • The debug kernel takes significantly more memory to boot, so we recommend at least 2GB of main memory, better 4GB and above.

For more information, including information about other common and known bugs, tips on how to report bugs, and the official release schedule, please refer to the release notes:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Alpha_release_notes

and for the Power specific issues please check out

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Alpha_PPC_release_notes

A shorter list of common bugs can be found here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs

For tips on reporting a bug effectively, read: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_file_a_bug_report

Contributing

Great releases like Fedora 19 don't get made in a vacuum. We can't do it without you! Bug reports are especially helpful as we move from the theory to the applied physics. If you encounter any issues, please report them!

Fedora is a fantastic, friendly community, and we have many ways in which you can contribute, including Documentation, Marketing, Design, QA, Development, and more.

To learn how to help us, visit: http://join.fedoraproject.org/

If you're specifically interested in contacting the Fedora Secondary Arch team for Power feel free to pay us a visit on IRC - #fedora-ppc IRC channel on FreeNode

and via our email list:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ppc

And we have our Secondary Arch wiki with (decently) updated information:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC

And last but not least, a big thanks to the whole team and everyone else contributing to making this release happen.

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