Fritz, I would strongly encourage you getting down to the command line. It will help you so much with Linux on PPC. I think once you get started you will see that tasks like applying patches, building .deb files, even compiling a kernel are not as daunting as they may sound. You will definitely feel that you are more in control of your computing freedom.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Aere Greenway <a...@dvorak-keyboards.com> wrote: > On 08/09/2015 04:37 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > >> But, this JWM for PPC has been mentioned before, perhaps by the time you >> have the time to do that, might be around when all support for 12.04 is >> dropped . . . . It's "hard" to work with a 450 MHz processor these days. >> > Fritz: > > I know (thanks to your reporting) that PPC support (or lack of such) is > its own 'bag of worms', unfortunately. I am impressed with your dogged > determination in trying to solve the many problems strewn in your path. > > But at least in the Intel world, I have a 450 megahertz HP Vectra test > machine, and it works with Lubuntu 14.04, 14.10, and now (more recently) > with Lubuntu 15.04 (15.04 tested-out better than 14.10). > > It runs my MIDI music tests, including running Qsynth, Qjactctl, > Rosegarden, and Java. It played a demanding MIDI sequence without a single > under-run error in qjackctl being reported. > > That being said, it is a slow machine, that I would not recommend to > anyone. Its best use is probably for me as a minimum-system test machine. > But someone could use it, if they were motivated to. > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > >
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