Alpha 1 released! (no ppc or . . . .

[Fritz Hudnut]

@wxl:

I think we have chatted in the past and you offered help to me a few years
back when I was first getting into linux and trying to get something
running on my ppc iMac . . . .  But, just a short comment, it was only a
few days ago that you first posted about needing ppc testers here . . .
although I'm personally thinking that 14.04 will be the bleeding edge for
my two ppc units . . . even if I had the time to test out an alpha one . .
. it takes time to actually do that . . . .  It seems like Lubuntu has
taken or has been given the task of providing a ppc friendly product . . .
so part of "priming the pump" might be to move forward with the image--if
you build it they will come . . . .

There are numbers of ppc people still out there, they might not be hanging
out here . . . .  It was somewhat amusing to see perhaps Israel's response
to one of my comments or questions about ppc . . . as simply, "PPC is a
mess" . . . and that is somewhat correct from what I've found; it's
certainly not "plug n play" . . . .  I'm looking specifically at the fact
that the NV driver is no longer included, and now it seems that the radeon
driver needs special handling . . . .  Meaning even more time is required
to run a test, etc . . . reducing the number of people who have time to do
that.

To get more potential people involved, and you may have done this, but, you
should also at least post a thread on the Apple Users sub-forum, and
possibly some of the PPC people there would be available to test stuff and
report back . . . .  Rsavage and others have posted a number of "Testers
wanted for xxx PPC" on that forum; although I haven't stopped by there
recently . . . due to time constraints.  Thanks if you are helping to keep
Lubuntu PPC friendly.

F/e.e.p.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:00 AM, <lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:51:11 +0000
> From: ? <carsrcoffins23 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Lubuntu Utopic Unicorn 14.10 Alpha 1 released! (no ppc or
>
>
> Release notes are here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/Alpha1/Lubuntu
>
> Note there are no ppc or amd64+mac images because no one with suitable
> hardware bothered to test. Please do so with the dailies and record
> your results on the ISO QA tracker so we can squash any obvious bugs
> and be ready for Alpha 2 testing in July:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing
>
> wxl
>
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