Hi Jim,
You're doing sterling work here.
I for one was happy to test and focused my efforts on the PPC platform,
although of I've only been using Xubuntu for a couple of months. I did this as
it was obviously not being done by many and on Henrik Omma's specific request
for PPC testers.
However, with official support for PPC being withdrawn and after seeing
evidence that many PPC specific bugs are not being fixed, it leaves me
wondering what the future of *Ubuntu on PPC is. After spending a lot of time,
effort and bandwidth downloading and then burning ISO images, it's pretty
disheartening to find that it will not even boot. You don't even have the same
virtualization options as x86, which makes life harder. I've also noticed that
there's no longer a daily build for PPC, unlike other platforms. I therefore
currently have little motivation to do any further testing until the future of
the PPC distros becomes a lot clearer. It's not entirely clear to me whether
there will even be a formal PPC release of Feisty.
A possible solution would be to give control of PPC repos to the *Ubuntu PPC
community. Unfortunately, with many of packages being non-platform specific,
but containing specific platform bugs this will probably be difficult to
achieve. *Ubuntu on PPC is streets ahead of other distros in my opinion and to
me Xubuntu is the No.1 choice whether you've got a newish G5 or some old iMac
that was found in a skip (dumpster). With Apple moving to x86, used PPC
machines have become really cheap and there is likely to be increasing interest
in *Ubuntu on PPC. It just seems a very short sighted business decision to me
when there is massive interest in *Ubuntu on Intel Macs and most owners are
unlikely to see the distinction anyway
I've also been a bit surprised by a few negative Mac comments on the #xubuntu
channel. This seems very odd to me in the Linux community.
Probably not exactly what you wanted to hear, but at least you can hopefully
understand why there's possibly a lack of interest.
Graeme
aka grazie
Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All,
Thanks for your recent help in testing the Xubuntu nightlies. We have had a
few good tests submitted, and people have been filing bug reports when certain
portions of their tests have failed.
With those things in mind, it would be great if we could get a few more tests
submitted. We especially need tests on machines with 64-bit and PPC
processors. If you are having trouble submitting your tests via the wiki,
please feel free to email me directly, or look for j1mc on the #xubuntu channel
on IRC, and I will help you. As Herd 5 is set to be released on the 1st of
March, we really only have up through tomorrow to get our tests submitted.
Per someone's request, I'll be adding a section to the bottom of the
/Xubuntu/Testing/Current page of the wiki where you can document the bugs that
you have experienced. Of course, bugs should also be checked in Launchpad,
too. Please look for this bug-related information to be added within the next
day.
If you have any other suggestions for improvements to the testing pages, please
let me know. Thanks again for all of your help!
Regards,
Jim
P.S. The link to the introduction page for Xubuntu testing is:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing Thanks. :)
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