Re: [gNewSense-users] How to voluntarily follow gNewSense / FSF guidelines on my Ubuntu Apple PPC?

[Karl Goetz]

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 14:32 -0700, Brian Greer wrote:
> Karl Goetz wrote:
> 
> > Read, unsupported.
> 
> That's what the corporation wants you to believe.  They say that 
> they don't have the resources, and that's understandable, yet at the 
> same time permit space on their servers and forums for the very 
> latest.  Drives me nuts at times.
> 
> So yes, from a corporate standpoint, you are right.

When it comes down to it, things that need fixing in supported products
(which is what ubuntu is) get attention before unsupported. Since the
wait on supported things can be long enough, i'm guessing that theres an
even bigger wait for ports.

> The question is, do you need corporate support, or would the support 
> of just the community suffice?  You know you'd have my vote for 
> sure.  That's what this is really all about - I just want to 
> encourage you, not prove you wrong.

If we had people who worked closely with upstreams -dev, -motu and -bugs
people and provide patches/fixes to go with the bug reports, i'd be much
more open to the idea. (it would allow us to poke people to fix bugs
sooner rather then waiting for upstream to fix it).

> How about Debian as a base?  If Ubuntu PPC were to dry up tomorrow, 
> it would be just as easy to transfer my skills to a Debian-ized 
> version of gNewSense for ppc.
> 
> I'll need that in about a week - thanks! :)

Are you asking about gNS here? its been brought up before - the list
archive will be your friend here.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian user / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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