On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 20:08 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > For sake of not repeating the same topics in this thread I will start > > off by saying that I am also a recent convert to Debian Testing PPC > > from Ubuntu 6.10. My primary motivation for moving to Debian was as a > > result of a recent decision by Canonical to drop support for PPC as of > > the end of version 6.10. > > > > I invested a lot of time and resources in getting my Ubuntu system > > 'stable' only to discover that my life cycle with Ubuntu would in fact > > not last very long and this was a hugely disappointing factor for me. > > >From a ethical point of view this made me realise that as long as any > > company is behind any kind of distro the only thing that will > > ultimately matter is the companies bottom-line and not the end user. > > > > I figured it would be wise to terminate my relationship with Ubuntu > > immediately, rather than later, and start the lengthy process of > > migrating everything over to Etch. > > > Hi Justin, > As an owner of a ppc, I have no problem with Canonical dropping support > for PPC macs, they are a company focused on the desktop, which is why > they initially supported PPC macs. Once that market no longer was to be > supported, they had little choice, as they have limited resources to > further their goal to bring users to the linux desktop. Luckily the PPC > platform has some life left in the embedded market and to a lesser > extent the PPC mac users. And with the recent 'vancouver' document that > was added as a new release standard from etch and forwards, some of the > architecures that are now supported may be dropped from official status > or removed. The obvious case being m68k -- aka the orginal macs -- not > being in Etch. In the upcoming release cycle -- lenny, I'd love to see > m68k and other arch. still be here but they have an uphill battle no > matter what distro you pick. > cheers, > Kev
Personally, I've always been rather suspicious of the whole Ubuntu thing. My thought was that they were giving the CDs away as a means of bolstering name recognition and establishing themselves as a mainstream linux player. I was sure that they would eventually parlay that into an IPO of some sort, and the people responsible for Ubuntu would walk away with a multi-billion dollar profit. Perhaps I was wrong, but it's still kind of early to discount the theory. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
