So what are the chances...
Of Ubuntu developers getting with the program and resupporting PPC? You know, one of the best things about linux has always been that it will work, in one form or another (right on down to command line distros for ancient, ancient hardware) on virtually (perhaps absolutely since it's up to the user to modify for the purpose of whatever hardware it WON'T work for...) any hardware. The problem I have with them unsupporting PPC is that they are screwing a lot of school districts out of having updated software, and further people in the third world may, five years from now when the price comes down to ten or fifteen dollars for an old ibook, still try to use them, and the one distro that claims they're all about uniting the electronic world under one linux distro won't be supporting them. What kind of crap is this? I just don't understand it, but at least they've supported it up to 2008, which is more than you can say for many distros. I wish I was a developer, honestly, because I'd see this as an area where I could really help: porting the advancements of ubuntu to PPC/SPARC platforms. Perhaps a MUBUNTU project is in order? Thoughts?
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