On 22 Mar 2002, Luis M wrote:
> I agree with this. It's sad to see how well organized and 'workable' is > the > i586 side of the Mandrake cooker tree. > I tried to maintain a mirror for us on the East side of the US at: > ftp://ftp.latinomixed.com/Mandrake-devel > and I constantly see how the i586 files get updated but the PPC ones ... > well, they get updated but a lot slower. > Compilation time alone on the hardware I have access to is 5 to 10 times slower, not to mention getting the program to build/work at all on PPC. > This is the day that I cannot still install (using the ISO's or not) the > Mandrake PPC 8.2b on Old World Power PCs (even beige G3's) and on the > iBook > (the only install that I didn't have to use kernels from other distros > to > get Mandrake up and running -- usually I just install Mandrake on Old > World > boxes using Yellow Dog's kernels) I still get spontaneous Kernel panics > every now and then... whether I have USB or not active (in fact, the > OHCI > driver is not even in the /lib/modules/.../drivers... directory, and if > I > try to modprobe the uhci one, it just says that it has a bad IRQ and > dies... > so I just don't use USB anyway). > I've explained this several times on the list ohci is integrated in the kernel. Maybe I should pull it out and let everyone scream when they have no keyboard at early boot when you need to fsck your damaged hard drive. > It's sad to see trivial problems as the ones mentioned below go > un-noticed; > I feel like Mandrake doesn't care about having a strong PPC distro. > un-noticed - OK, so I guess I just hang out on here for laughs. I try very hard to respond to every issue raised. > >From my part, I have Mandrake running on a PIII 800 and I'm very happy > with > it, but if I would've known it was such a bad distro on the PPC side, I > would've just stood with the now poorly maintained LinuxPPC or Suse, or > Yellow Dog .... etc... > > I'm willing to help as much as I can to get the PPC tree of Mandrake as > bug-free as it could be. I guess that there are a million other users > like > me out there willing to use Mandrake on their PPC hardware, especially > on > those beige Macs/PowerMax/etc.../*ppc . > > Overall, to wrap up, I consider the distro to be pretty good as of now, > especially since a version was skipped to keep up with the i586 distro ( > from 8.0 to 8.2 ). Let's keep up the good work! > > > Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
