Breezy and the ppc Difficulties

[Irena and Richard Jenkins]

Someone commented on the lack of reports on the ppc version.  As a ppc user, I 
have finally given Kubuntu up as a lost cause.  Principally, I had very 
limited success with multimedia.  It could NOT reliably find and lock onto my 
sound system ... and so I was forever resetting the sound so that I could get 
some output.  Getting Amarok and Kaffeine to behave was a full-time task!

In comparison Mandriva linux just grabbed the right settings and held on.  I 
could play mp3, broadcasts, etc ... with NO additional fiddling!!  I have to 
say that despite Kubuntu's brand new versions of programs, its multimedia 
abilities are just cr_p!!

Kubuntu comes with a brilliant look and feel ... and its package management is 
also brilliant.  This may be necessary because in the month or so I had the 
distribution on my hard disk I did several updates.

Kubuntu's other area of shame was its handling of removable usb drives (both 
cameras and memory sticks).  I got my system to behave ... but connecting my 
usb camera to the computer remained a nightmare.  I could eventually achieve 
something ... but pity the poor beginner!

On the other hand Debian developers could learn a lot from the Kubuntu 
installer ... which worked exceedingly well!  


Richard
(350 Mhz iMac with 256Meg of RAM ... and a bit of linux desktop experience 
going back two or three years - on both x86 and mac computers).


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Irena & Richard  Jenkins
Canberra,  AUSTRALIA
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