On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 12:21:08PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
Hi
Am 23.11.22 um 18:18 schrieb Larry Finger:
On 11/23/22 09:36, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
YEs, I'd defintiively make ISO files for the installers. But it mostly dpeends on the volunteers that step up to actually maintain the things. I'll help with the initial setup (incl openQA) but, once running, expect not to touch this anymore (unless the people opting to take care ask for specific help).
So in short: yes, I expect installer ISO files, but I'd not expect Live images.
I think it's a pity that openSUSE doesn't build images for all the architectures built in Factory. Some ports like big-endian PowerPC (32- and 64-bit) are missing. Honestly, I'm not even sure which of the ports even have users - we build ISO files for PPC64 and PPC64le (but not ppc32) https://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/tumbleweed/iso/
I don't think there are many people who actually use this for anything but occasional cross-architecture testing but it's the Factory that becomes our stable release eventually. The ppc64 big endian port is useful when you want to test some big endian quirk and don't want to run your test on a mainframe.
Are there any others that would like a ppc32 version of openSUSE? I am stuck with Debian on my PowerBook G4 Aluminum, and I dislike it a lot.
I'm stuck with Gentoo on an old ppc32 system. Tumbleweed would be much preferred.
Besides building the distribution (which tends to bitrot on 32bit because upstream maintainers tend to care little about their software building with only 2G address space, and on 32bit architectures in general) we also lack support for the Apple pmap and HFS in the installer. These machines used to be nice but are rare, getting one is pretty expensive because the ones that survived until now are colloctor items, and the performance is not as great as it used to due to increasing performance requirements of software over time. Thanks Michal