Subject: Re: Hello!! -New To List
From: Stephen Paullada (paullada@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 21:12:08 MST
Please post to the list only and not e-mail. Thank you.
On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 09:06 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
> It got stuck with the Q4 release. It was a great one, it worked
> wonders for me. But they never updated it. They never got past things
> like kernel 2.2.18, KDE 2.1. old GNOME (don't remember the version) and
> things like that. Many struggled trying to keep it alive but it was
> difficult. Jeff was nowhere to be found for some time. People started
> updating everything by themselves since support and distro-orientated
> updates were difficult to find, and many got tired of the scenario and
> decided to go for another distro. That's exactly my case, since I got
> my Q4 system up to kernel 2.4.10 and KDE 2.2.1 by myself, but is a bit
> difficult to be completely on your own in the Linux world, don't you
> think? It's something that moves to fast and if you don't have a
> supported distro by major developers you have to start tweaking
> everything for it to work for you. Eventually everyone gets tired of
> that, I think.
>
> Jeff and others did a great job, but maybe things just got too
> difficult to keep that project going. Unfortunate, very much indeed.
> The user list still works and maybe others do as well. But for the rest
> everything is quite dead (boy do I heat to say that!). I think that is
> the fall of a distro, but if you know anything I don't that might make
> me happy please let me know. Is LinuxPPC still alive?
>
> Sincerely,...
>
> Juan.
>
> On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 11:43 AM, Daniel E. White wrote:
>
>> What leads you to believe that the LinuxPPC distro has fallen ?
>>
>> On a different note, I have an old 5500 I was considering loading with
>> Linux. Have you tried one of these ?
>>
>>> Hello everybody, I'm new to the list since I just migrated from
>>> LinuxPPC. I am another of the very sad Linux fans who had to see the
>>> unfortunate fall of that distro. But here I am hoping to have a great
>>> time with this one and to be able to offer my feedback and help to
>>> anyone who might need it on this list. Just as well I hope I can find
>>> here the help I'll possible need, since I am no guru or genius. Just
>>> another Apple fan who is very happy to see the smiling Penguin on his
>>> computer.
>>>
>>> I hope all had a merry christmas and the happiest New Year. The
>>> year to come seems to be very promising for us Apple fans, so let us
>>> enjoy what Steve (Jobs, of course) and the Linux community with their
>>> 2.5 early development have to offer. And please let me fell welcomed
>>> to the list, I'll be looking forward to be an active participant of
>>> it.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,...
>>>
>>>
>>> Juan.
>>
>>
>> --
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Dan
>> White
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists
>> elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact
>> us."
>> Calvin (Bill
>> Watterson)
>
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