[Cialug] Ubuntu

[Jeff Chapin]

I'm excited to hear that PPC support is back. I have an old mac-mini,
and had to resort to using Gentoo as OSX was slower than anything on it,
and it seemed that most distros either cut support for PPC or have VERY
stale packages for someone who likes "cutting edge" features... at the
time, Debian was several major updates behind on the "killer" app for
this box -- MythTV.

Jeff Chapin

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008 17:14, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> Most computers have no BT software installed so if we pimp the BT
>> links we're going to have a lot of headaches. If you're in the know
>> the torrents are there to be found. They're there on the same page as
>> the DVD downloads (which aren't mirrored enough places for me to
>> advertise yet so commented out in the source code) and the complete
>> list of mirrors.
> 
> I usually grab the DVD version rather than CD. Thanks to the magic of 
> bittorrent, i've already gotten the x86_86 version, and the i386 will 
> probably be done tonight. (And i'll leave both running for a few days 
> to help others out.) One question though--what's up with the PowerPC 
> version? It's been discontinued the last couple releases, but i found a 
> torrent for a PowerPC 8.04 CD yesterday. I grabbed it and will try it 
> out soon. But i was surprised to see PowerPC was back.
> 
> I normally use Debian, but i must say i prefer Ubuntu for laptops and 
> other "difficult" hardware.
> 
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