On Monday 25 June 2007 22:07, Derick Centeno wrote: > You are then probably aware that the Ubuntu team has shunted further > support onto the Ubuntu community which mostly means that no one will be > doing serious PowerPC development software implementing it's advanced > capacity. That decision was announced here: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-February/000098.html
The latest version of Ubuntu (v7.04 "Feisty Fawn") can be found here for PPC: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/feisty/release/ Supposedly it's an unofficial release. I've tried the live CD in a G5 and it seems to work OK, as do the other derivatives (Kubuntu, Xubuntu). It looks like Ubuntu is the most up-to-date; the newest versions of Kubuntu and Xubuntu haven't been updated for PPC yet, and may not ever be. > As for Fink on OS X, you will have to investigate that community. Although > help from the Debian community is possible, however as Ubuntu follows > Debian most likely PowerPC support will not be a priority there either. My experience with Fink on OS X is that while it's a noble effort, there are just too few people using it to keep any quality control going. Also, I think that Apple has been pretty clever in making it difficult to port Linux and X11 software to OS X. A lot of it, particularly the Unix scientific stuff, just doesn't work right at all. Furthermore, the Fink packages are often really out-of-date. Incidentally, Debian is still supporting PPC. It's just Ubuntu (and its derivatives) that have decided to end their support of the PPC platform. > As far as searching current rpms modify the yum.conf file according to the > instructions here: > > http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/yum.shtml > > Once the above is done, you can add more sites by adding the listed > official YDL mirrors into yum.conf. You may not even need to do that; try > the standard rpms first. Could anyone post their /etc/yum.conf files for YDL 4.1 and/or YDL 5? I'm still looking for more repos. I can't seem to find a repo that has stuff like Synaptic, KPackage, or Nvu in it, and doing a compile from source is a little out of my league at the moment. Thanks, -PRH _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
