Is Ubuntu giving up on the PPC platform?

[Olafur Arason]

Sorry but Yellowdog allways has old versions of fedora, so I wouldn't
depend on them if you want new versions of anything. Ubuntu PPC
ships along with Ubuntu, so it's allways the newest. But there are
Dapper problems and Dapper fixes(like for suspend), but there are
still two months until the final release.

Olafur Arason

On 2/11/06, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/11/06, Brian Durant <RoadTripDK at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> > I have seen a number of postings about resources for PowerPC users
> > that have been pulled, there is no PPC Ubuntu list and it seems
> > almost impossible to find any PPC Ubuntu/Kubuntu users on this list.
>
> I imagine PPC Linux will continue for many years to come.
> YellowDogLinux is dedicated to PPC-only and Mac (most PPC users ;-)
> owners tend to keep their computer for decades longer than Windows/x86
> clone owners.
>
> > I can see that development of Dapper is continuing apace, but as long
> > as there isn't a resolution for the thermal and fan control issues
> > for G5 single towers (like mine), iMac G5 and G5 tower multi-
> > processor systems, I am starting to wonder if the PPC platform is
> > still considered viable for Ubuntu since Apple's switch to Intel? Is
> > there a serious effort being made to continue PPC development, or are
> > we orphans now?
>
> > As far as I can see, from his e-mails on debian-
> > powerpc at lists.debian.org, benh at kernel.crashing.org seems to think
> > that they have the problem more or less sussed (for my G5 tower
> > anyway), yet there doesn't seem to be a kernel update for Breezy yet
> > and Dapper still has the same problem with thermal control.
>
> I imagine there never will be an official kernel update for Breezy
> since the kernel is a pretty major thing to change (though, there
> likely will be unofficial kernel updates ;-) in a post-production
> operating system.
>
> Keep your eye on YellowDogLinux (and, I know you do ;-). They're
> likely to get the problems fixed first and then the fix will propagate
> to the other PPC Linuxes.
>
> > I am not
> > trying to be irritating, I'm just trying to get a straight answer. So
> > far I just keep getting the echo of my own voice.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Brian
>
> Eric.
>
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