Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 - PPC (a.k.a. everything I expected from YDL2.0)
From: Brian Olson (olson@mail.humonc.wisc.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 21:33:12 MDT
I just wanted to second Andrews notion. I would be glad to volunteer
time. I am not a programmer, however I would be happy to test
anything you throw my way. I have a compliment of mac's from early G3
to dual 800 g4's. I am working on acquiring an ANS as well.
--Brian
>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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