[OT]Re: PPC Firefox/Thunderbird 1.0 builds

[Cian Duffy]

Having spent the entire evening attempting to install Ubuntu and being
left with a text installer that eventually dumped me to a command line
with no working root user and no XFree86, I can safely say that YDL is
pretty much the only choice on PPC, particularly for non-experienced
users - I've got numerous years using UNIX systems behind me. How and
why Eric assumes that Ubuntu is a better distro I'll never know.

Cian

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:54:21 -0500, Jurvis LaSalle <lasalle at bard.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 18, 2005, at 2:28 PM, a monkey wrote:
> 
> > "that distro that shall remain nameless"?
> 
> The list members and moderators have asked Mr. Dunbar to stop
> recommending the Ubuntu distro every time a YDL user asks for help.  He
> would frequently recommend switching to Ubuntu for any problem a user
> had on YDL that he hadn't had on Ubuntu.  It wore the patience of the
> list a little thin as it wasn't a very constructive suggestion.  We all
> recognize that ydl 4.0 was a bit buggy upon release.  Ubuntu was
> probably more polished and easier for n00bs to use, but his suggestions
> were not furthering the raison d'être of this list- to help users use
> and improve *YDL*.  I hope that clarifies the nameless distro for you
> and we can all go back to improving the distro whose list we've
> subscribed to.
> 
> Jurvis LaSalle
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