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Fedora ARM Secondary Architecture

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Fedora Secondary Architecture
== Fedora Secondary Architecture ==
[http://fedoraproject.org Fedora ] is an [http://opensource.org open source] community that produces the [http://get.fedoraproject.org Fedora Linux distribution] -- a complete operating system (and more) consisting of thousands of software packages. This software is available free of charge complete with the source code, so anyone can use, distribute, and modify it to meet their needs. The Fedora distribution supports two primary architectures:
* i386 - 32-bit Intel/AMD-compatible
* x86_64 - 64-bit Intel/AMD-compatible
There are also a number of secondary archs:
* '''arm - A widely-used, low-power processor family commonly used for embedded and mobile applications'''
* ia64 - Itanium
* pa-risc - HP Precision Architecture
* s390 - IBM mainframes (including z90 and z9)
* sparc - Sun RISC architecture
 
The ARM architecture is increasingly important, but there's a lot more that could be done in terms of update frequency, number of packages successfully built, transparency of process, and integration with the other Fedora build processes.
== ARM Processors ==