Is Ubuntu giving up on the PPC platform?

[Brian Durant]

On 12. feb 2006, at 3.54, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 17:21 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>> I imagine there never will be an official kernel update for Breezy
>> since the kernel is a pretty major thing to change (though, there
>> likely will be unofficial kernel updates ;-) in a post-production
>> operating system.
>
> Sorry if I am missing something here, but Breezy was released with a
> 2.6.12-9 kernel, which was then updated to 2.6.12-10. That's for i386,
> but if they had the balls to do it for i386, why wouldn't they do  
> it for
> PPC if need be ?
>
> --
> Vince, a little confused...

Yeah, I'm not sure if Ubuntu numbers their kernels exactly the same  
as Debian or...? The Debian PPC list is a buzz with the news that the  
debian/etch beta2 installer, which will have 2.6.15 kernel from the  
start, is out very, very soon. Sooooo why not issue the 2.6.15 PPC  
kernel at the same time as an upgrade for Breezy and freeze the same  
kernel into Dapper PPC from the start? That would hopefully solve  
issues for relatively new G5 towers. As of now, Breezy AND Dapper are  
both basically just betaware on my box :-( Oh, wait, Dapper IS  
betaware at this point ;-)

Brian