We all got bills, just run the build command leave the computer, do what you gotta do, come back and you should be done :)
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Fritz Hudnut <este.el....@gmail.com> wrote: > @AG: > > Thanks for the emotional support, yes, sniff, it's a lonely world in linux > PPC . . . nobody calls, nobody "likes" my posts . . . the devs don't > respond to bug reports . . . . : - ((((( > > But, sure, 450 MHz is "OK" for many local tasks, it just gets totally > overwhelmed in places like FB . . . . > > @HH: > > Appreciate the reply as well, however, "get down to the terminal" . . . > right, but for what? I do use the terminal for routine upgrades, but, > having spent time in fink and mintppc, where upgrades/installs took 8 > hours, during which something would invariably break, I've moved on to the > more stable systems like the 'buntu flavors, that don't take so much time > and attention to just get them to run. Like, if there was a wiki on how to > update xfce to 4.10 or 4.12 while in 12.04, and the CL instructions were > detailed . . . I could maybe find the time. But, compiling a kernel?? Too > many things to do that I'm already ignoring . . . I've got "bills" . . . > "bills" . . . "bills" . . . . : - ) > > F > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. < > herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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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