Re: [lubuntu-users] State of PPC

2016-07-24 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: > I just make sure that > they know we're listening and understand. In fact, could you link me to > some of these forums? Maybe I should link the release announcements > there and respond to responses on that. I could also look at some > threa

Re: [lubuntu-users] State of PPC

2016-07-23 Thread Simon Quigley
Greetings, I wanted to clear things up to make sure we're all on the same page. Basically, I want to clarify what Nio and Walter have said on various threads (if these are the points they are getting at, correct this email if I'm wrong). The Lubuntu team LOVES the PowerPC users. We love that you

Re: [lubuntu-users] State of PPC

2016-07-23 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > At least as far as getting some testing on the QA for what might be the > last hurrah for PPC and Lubuntu . . . . > > Well, ideally we still need testing on the Trusty/Xenial point releases, > at minimum. Any support you can drum up t

Re: [lubuntu-users] State of PPC

2016-07-23 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Jul 23, 2016 7:48 AM, "Fritz Hudnut" wrote: > Also, with wxl's permission I could re-post his email here about the "State of PPC" on the apple user sub-forum, and see if that will garner any response(s)??? Yes, please. I'm not just trying to make some proclamation of how it is. This is a com

Re: [lubuntu-users] State of PPC

2016-07-23 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > My estimation of things is that Lubuntu on PPC mostly works, given a few > caveats. All we need to do to release PPC is for all of the test cases to > be completed successfully (regardless of whether or not there are bugs) and > that mar

Re: [lubuntu-users] State of PPC

2016-07-22 Thread Narcis Garcia
The .1 release is the most important, because it's a stabilization of LTS ISO release. Next point releases introduce new kernels & GUI and this can introduce new bugs to discover. El 22/07/16 a les 22:59, Walter Lapchynski ha escrit: > As you can see from the page on [PPC][1], the architecture ha

[lubuntu-users] State of PPC

2016-07-22 Thread Walter Lapchynski
As you can see from the page on [PPC][1], the architecture has only community support from Ubuntu. Lubuntu has been trying as much as we can to support this, but the fact of the matter is that we have no developers on our team that can actually help with PPC bugs. The best you can hope for is that