PPC Users: Should I Upgrade to 8.10 or Wait??

[Nigel Ridley]

Graham Todd wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:42:08 +1100
> "Irena & Richard Jenkins" <richard.jenkins at internode.on.net> wrote:
> 
>> That should be 'Intrepid Ibex' ... as I already have 'hardy heron'.
>> Sorry for the confusion
>>
>> Richard
> 
> As I understand it, PPC support has been officially withdrawn by
> Canonical several releases back (I can't remember which one).
> Therefore there is no official PPC release for Kubuntu.
> 
> There may be some versions of PPC Kubuntu distros produced but they
> will be UNOFFICIAL and therefore you cannot rely on them.  But hey - if
> you want to try them and accept that there MAY be problems - go ahead.
> 
> I agree with you that "Linux on a Mac is delightful", but to be sure
> that you have official support for the PPC architecture, I suggest you
> go with Debian. The unstable series has (I believe) support for KDE
> 4.2.x.
> 
> My advice is to NOT upgrade to Kubuntu 8.10 or 9.04, but switch to
> Debian.  After all, its the distro on which the *ubuntu family was
> based, so you should feel at home :-)
> 

Jaunty *is* available for PPC
Have you seen:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1002524
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/ports/daily/current/

Nigel