[ydl-gen] Slow ibook X11 (2D)

[Kai Staats]

Warren,

> Thanks, Derick. Yes, I am well aware of Ubuntu's lack of support of
> PPC.  In my opinion, the Ubuntu community effort more than makes up
> for this. In the process of installing the OS yesterday, I had a
> number of problems and found (by several Google searches) an answer
> for every problem in a matter of minutes. The various Ubuntu forums
> for PPC seem to have several orders of magnitude more members than
> the YDL forums. Also, the Debian repositories seem much more complete
> than the default yum repositories. I wanted to install wmaker, and
> did it quickly and immediately using apt-get in Ubuntu. When I tried
> it using YUM (in YDL), I got no hits. Actually, this is what "fed me
> up" and I was expecting no video acceleration when I installed Ubuntu
> - I was delighted to be wrong in this when the OS  came up. As a PPC
> partisan, I have always  hoped that YDL would have parity with Ubuntu
> in these areas, but life is short...

Your feedback is well received. You are correct--a substantial community can 
more than compensate for the dedicated effort of a commercial effort, even 
one that releases its OS to the public mirrors. This is the very basis of the 
Linux movement and why it continues in such good health.

While we embrace this, we are focused primarily on the Apple G5 and forward 
into Cell based systems with limited effort to support the older Apple 
models. Our installer is the simplest on the market, and everything works out 
of the box, but some advanced features such as acceleration have not been our 
top priority this last round or two. It is a sad thing, say, for I am writing 
this on a 12" G4 PB running YDL and will be sad when it dies.

The PS3/YDL userbase is very large, estimated at over 100,000 (maybe more, 
hard to tell), but not highly active in community support nor development as 
they come from a completely different background than traditional, late '90s 
and early 2000s Linux users. These are mostly PS3 users who discovered that 
Linux too can function on their game box, enabling a home computer.

We desire to increase our active user base. We desire to build our community.

If you have any suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact me through this 
list or [first letter of my first name][last name] at us dot fixstars dot com

Sincerely,
kai