PowerPC specific list

[Romeyn Prescott]

At 1:58 PM -0500 12/5/04, Nathan Sprangers scribbled:
>Henry Keultjes wrote:
>
>>  There is merit to starting a PowerPC specific list right now while 
>>we are at the beginning of a greatly expanded PowerPC market.
>>
>>  The basic reason that PowerPC will gain marketshare very rapidly 
>>is that PowerPC is already oriented toward the new realities of 
>>computing *devices* that includes STB (Set Top Boxes) Game boxes 
>>and nextgen PC's.  Even Microsoft will have the thirs iteration of 
>>the nex PowerPC based XBox as a home PC.
>>
>>  Do your own research and/or read 
>>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5009
>>
>>  Henry Keultjes
>>  Mansfield Ohio USA
>>
>I would like to see an UbuntuPPC list at some point simply because 
>there are many hardware issues (OpenFirmware, yaboot, graphics 
>cards, filesystems, laptop support, etc.) so the x86 world doesn't 
>have much to gain from these discussions, however (IMHO) I don't 
>think that now is the time.  It seems to me that the Ubuntu user 
>base isn't quite big enough yet for that and really the majority of 
>the discussion on ubuntu-users is applicable to all platforms.
>

There IS a forum at ubuntuforums.org dedicated to PPC 
issues/concerns.  But I know that not all frequenters of forums 
subscribe to E-mail lists and vice versa.  Still, I DO like the 
forum's ability to let you subscribe to a thread by E-mail!

...ROMeyn
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