Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-05-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I'll look into it, thanks! @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager & Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon Team Leader Ubuntu Membership Board & LoCo Council Member Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-organizer On May 25, 2015 3:30 PM, "Boris Reinhard" wrote: > Meant to

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-05-25 Thread Boris Reinhard
Meant to pick up on that earlier, as time and time again has shown it often still comes down to a gap in communication or a missing link of sorts between the different ppl ("players") aside from bothering Michael Ellerman some months ago I haven't made further contact. Wolfram Sang might be someon

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-03-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Oh and the PPC team always needs help! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/PPC On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > Changes in Debian get synced downstream to Ubuntu. Where do you think > the fix is? > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Mari wrote: >> Hi >> >> First l

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-03-12 Thread Walter Lapchynski
Changes in Debian get synced downstream to Ubuntu. Where do you think the fix is? On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Mari wrote: > Hi > > First let me thank you for all the work you and your team do on Lubuntu-I am > a big fan! I have installed it on many old computers and it performs well! I > als

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-03-11 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > We just need to make > some friends involved with Debian PPC. Does anyone already have any > contacts? If not, let me know and I'll go searching. > @wxl: Right, that would seem to be the key point to the basic kernel issues for PPC, s

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-03-11 Thread Walter Lapchynski
I might add that one route we might want to aim for is to shoot things upstream to Debian. Since we're not on a tight development cycle (LTS only for Lubuntu PPC), that gives us some time. We just need to make some friends involved with Debian PPC. Does anyone already have any contacts? If not, let

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-03-11 Thread Boris Reinhard
It's complicated, for various reasons some stuff works while some can only run due to extensive workarounds, with heavy performance compromises or doesn't run at all. You have to keep in mind ppc macs are only supported on community effort, ppl do not get paid anymore to fix stuff for our old ppc

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-03-11 Thread meets
Hi, Sorry to disturb your methods, I am putting the order from first to last and answering at the bottom. On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:20:15 -0700 Walter Lapchynski wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Mari wrote: > > But I am disappointed by the lack of PPC support-they are old computers > >

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Lubuntu on an old PPC

2015-03-11 Thread Fritz Hudnut
Mari: Screenshots look nice . . . I also posted here or on Lubuntu users about getting Xubun 12.04 running on a Powermac G4 with 450 MHz processor for use as home desktop . . . it runs, but, a little slow. But, indeed, support for PPC is not what it was, but several people have contributed to the