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

[Israel]

Hi All!!!
I downloaded the PPC alpha and will test it on two computers.  One as a
live Environment, and one I will install it, and post my results here,
and on the qa tracker

On 06/27/2014 10:44 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> @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
> <mailto:lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     Message: 6
>     Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:51:11 +0000
>     From: ? <carsrcoffins23 at yahoo.com <mailto: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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Regards

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