Re: Which version

2006-12-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kevin Mark wrote: or removed. The obvious case being m68k -- aka the orginal macs -- not being in Etch. In the upcoming release cycle -- lenny, I'd love to see m68k and other arch. still be here but they have an uphill battle no matter what distro you pick. I don't really know, but past

Re: Which version

2006-12-13 Thread Ralf Saalmüller
Am 13.12.2006 um 05:44 schrieb Charles Plessy: Definitely, the OEM market for desktop ppc is dead. But the second hand market is much greater than the OEM one anyway. Does anybody has an idea on the number of ppc macintoshes Apple sold? Let's make a guess. Nothing more. Apple sold

Re: Which version

2006-12-13 Thread Dieter Schuster
Guten Tag, am Mi, den 13 Dezember 2006, schrieb Charles Plessy: Definitely, the OEM market for desktop ppc is dead. But the second hand Definitely not! There is still Genesi/bplan. You can buy Pegasos ODW and the Efika with a PPC and there will come new desktop PPC from Genesi/bplan. And

Re: Which version

2006-12-13 Thread Andrzej Mendel
On wto, 2006-12-12 at 23:13 -0500, De Served wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: Hi Guys For sake of not repeating the same topics in this thread I will start off by saying that I am also a

Re: Which version

2006-12-13 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:39:47AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Kevin Mark wrote: or removed. The obvious case being m68k -- aka the orginal macs -- not being in Etch. In the upcoming release cycle -- lenny, I'd love to see m68k and other arch. still be here but they have an uphill

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi Guys For sake of not repeating the same topics in this thread I will start off by saying that I am also a recent convert to Debian Testing PPC from Ubuntu 6.10. My primary motivation for moving to Debian was as a result of a recent decision by Canonical to drop support for PPC as of the end

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: Hi Guys For sake of not repeating the same topics in this thread I will start off by saying that I am also a recent convert to Debian Testing PPC from Ubuntu 6.10. My primary motivation for moving to Debian was as a result of a

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread De Served
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: Hi Guys For sake of not repeating the same topics in this thread I will start off by saying that I am also a recent convert to Debian Testing PPC from Ubuntu 6.10. My

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:08:43PM -0500, Kevin Mark a écrit : Hi Justin, As an owner of a ppc, I have no problem with Canonical dropping support for PPC macs, they are a company focused on the desktop, which is why they initially supported PPC macs. Once that market no longer was to be

Re: Which version

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Hartman
On 12/13/06, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Definitely, the OEM market for desktop ppc is dead. But the second hand market is much greater than the OEM one anyway. Does anybody has an idea on the number of ppc macintoshes Apple sold? I certainly don't know the figures but I agree