Hello — I’m completely new to Adélie Linux and have been brought here on a recommendation from ActionRetro on YouTube who was advocating this distro for use on PPC and had tested it on a somewhat ancient iMac G3.
Having read a review elsewhere, I understand that Adélie is still at the stage where everything has to be communicated through CLI. Therefore, because (other than copy+paste and some basics) command line syntax is something I am never going to learn — ever — I am very curious to learn how long it may be (2021, 2022, 2023…), before a version of Adélie exists for most platforms (particularly PPC + SunSPARC), with fully functional GUI installers and OS with full, easy GUI and access to basic programs and codecs (akin to Linux Mints’ optional proprietary repositories auto-install), where users don’t need, for example, to download and figure out how the hell to install drivers just to get (say) WiFi up and running — and there’s a Synaptic-type package manager for hassle-free software installs. “How long is a piece of string?”. It’s an unreasonable question, I know. Ball Park idea? A year, perhaps? Two? Ever? It’s probably awful (even infuriating) for you guys and girls working on CLI every day, to hear users utterly refuse to use it and demand (request), instead, a pretty OS interface just to then use it on PowerPC G3’s and stacks of old Sun servers. It’s an unenviable task you have for sure, yet curiosity demands I have to ask: partly because nobody has, so far as I’m aware, despite their claims, come up with a linux operating system which works 100% perfectly as a daily driver on PPC architecture or for HA clustering, but mostly because I want to have fun with what you’ve created — so please forgive me. Thank you so much! Best regards, Steve _______________________________________________ Adélie Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
