apt-get repository

[Henry A. Leinhos]

Matthias, 

Do you have a PayPal account?  I'm sure some of us here in the PPC community 
wouldn't mind contributing for a new (or slightly used) G4.  Any one else 
interested? 

Henry 

Matthias Saou writes: 

> Ryan Nix wrote : 
> 
>> No kidding.  Matthias is great! 
>> 
>> Matthias, have you every thought about "selling" requests to make 
>> obscure packages availible?  Say like $10 to make something like the 
>> latest cvs of MaconLinux availible upon request?
> 
> Nope, let me keep my hobbies as hobbies, please! :-D
> One thing I wouldn't be against, though, is if some wealthy Mac believer
> wanted to donate a new PowerMac (or even better, PowerBook/iBook) to me in
> order to build packages faster and actually test them ;-) Currently, I only
> have an "OldWorld" Beige G3 tower I bought from a friend, with no display
> connected... and no altivec, no 3D acceleration... and it takes a
> loooooooooong time to compile stuff, and it requires MacOS/BootX to be able
> to boot :-(
> Sometimes, I can get my hands on a 400MHz G4 at work, on which firefox took
> "only" 4h (*) to recompile... that's actually much faster than my 266MHz G3
> :-) But hey, a few hours compiling on a single machine saves so much more
> time to plenty of people, it's definitely worth it. 
> 
> Back on topic : I do appreciate quick personal mails about bugs or outdated
> packages in my repository, like for audacity recently. Believe it or not, I
> usually fix problems and update packages pretty fast ;-) 
> 
> Matthias 
> 
> (*) : It took 30 minutes for the same package on a 2800+ Athlon64 and 50
> minutes on a 1.7GHz Intel centrino laptop. Fun with real world numbers! 
> 
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