Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 - PPC (a.k.a. everything I expected from YDL2.0)
From: Andrew Weiss (ajwdsp@cloud9.net)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 21:22:26 MDT
On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 04:58 PM, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Dan Burcaw wrote:
>> How about, support the small guy that is committed to your platform?
>
> This is why I buy YDL for PPC, and Mandrake for my single Intel box.
> BTW,
> I've had far more problems getting Mandrake installed properly on a Dell
> PIII 550 than *any* YDL install I've ever done. A large part of the
> problems is that the Intel box really doesn't handle SCSI in an elegant
> way.
>
>> So I guess this brings up a good question: how can we, as Terra Soft,
>> make YDL a best of class distribution knowing that the economics of
>> today, and this market in particular, don't allow us to hire many
>> people? I'd love to hear feed back on this.
>
> How about getting volunteers? I would be happy to volunteer (free
> labor!) to help out TerraSoft in any way I could. Contact me privately
> if
> this interests you.
And while I plan to pick up some programming in my spare time (we'll
have to see if it does any good... haven't programmed since High
School)... I'd be willing to entertain the notion of helping Terrasoft
with their LinuxPPC nubus effort...(nonexistent I'm sure...) and also
LinuxPPC with their older RS/6000 effort. I just acquired 7 old
RS/6000's, 3 Nubus Powermacs, and 2 Quadras...all of which will be
running either Net/OpenBSD, Linux, or AIX depending on what I end up
liking the most.... not depending on what is least challenging to get
running.
Andrew
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