Thanks, Derick. Yes, I am well aware of Ubuntu's lack of support of PPC. In my opinion, the Ubuntu community effort more than makes up for this. In the process of installing the OS yesterday, I had a number of problems and found (by several Google searches) an answer for every problem in a matter of minutes. The various Ubuntu forums for PPC seem to have several orders of magnitude more members than the YDL forums. Also, the Debian repositories seem much more complete than the default yum repositories. I wanted to install wmaker, and did it quickly and immediately using apt-get in Ubuntu. When I tried it using YUM (in YDL), I got no hits. Actually, this is what "fed me up" and I was expecting no video acceleration when I installed Ubuntu - I was delighted to be wrong in this when the OS came up. As a PPC partisan, I have always hoped that YDL would have parity with Ubuntu in these areas, but life is short...
cheers, wn On Jan 12, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Derick Centeno wrote: > Caveat Warren: Remember that Ubuntu quit supporting the PowerPC > officially back in version 6. What you've acquired is an unofficial > "community" effort. I understand your frustration; I thought you > would prefer to be clear regarding the "lay of the land". > > Still all the best...Derick > > On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Warren Nagourney wrote: > >> Sorry, I got fed up and installed Ubuntu 8.10 instead and had >> accelerated video right out of the box (in addition to a much >> better - >> in my opinion- app installation system than yum). >> >> cheers, >> >> wn >> > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com > http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list yellowdog-general@lists.fixstars.com http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'