Is Ubuntu giving up on the PPC platform?

[Eric Dunbar]

You might just be cherry picking your facts there [1] and positing a
false argument (Michael T Richter would be able to articulate the
logic problems with your arguments... he seems to be up on his logic
terminology :-).

[1]  Or, you might not know (nothing wrong with that, YDL is a pretty
'small' OS nowadays (if you can call four CDs small)). Terrasoft
doesn't widely explain its OS design AFAIK.

YellowDogLinux is a mixture of old and new (and, that's certainly not
a bad thing... YDL has been _rock, solid, stable_ for me (even moreso
than Ubuntu)). They mix and match between the various versions of FC,
cherrypicking the components they like or can handle with their
development team. Would YDL be called a derivative or something else?

As for the Ubuntu PPC ships at the same time as Ubuntu [2] and has the
latest versions argument. It's true whenever any OS ships, _including_
YellowDogLinux [3] and even Debian stable (every five years or so ;-)!
Even Ubuntu becomes outdated unless you upgrade

This simply points to one of the advantages of Ubuntu's rapid release
cycle if you want to have a full slate of the latest, greatest (and
buggiest ;-) software you upgrade when Ubuntu releases its next
version (or, if you're a masochist, run the development version). That
said, with YDL you can get newer software before the next full
release, either by compiling it yourself or pulling it off unofficial
repositories (exactly like with Ubuntu ;-).

[2] Isn't Ubuntu PPC the same as Ubuntu ;-)
[3] In YDL, you end up with the latest stable versions of GNOME, KDE,
OpenOffice, etc. with each new release of the OS.

Eric.

On 2/14/06, Olafur Arason <olafra at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.