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Hi |
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I'm a software developer, my main focus is on Macintosh and Linux development. |
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Mostly user interfaces on mac, and server apps on linux. That means using |
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linux on Intel hardware, since it's far cheaper. (very important on the third |
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world). |
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Of course, at home i want to use linux also as a workstation, not only as |
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servers, so i installed linux on my iMac; first YellowDog, but after trying |
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to upgrade from KDE 2 to 3, it became a whole mess of dependencies, and |
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incomplete packages. |
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Then, i found you had a PPC version of your distro; and it was perfect!! easy |
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to upgrade, and easy to configure to have exactly what i need, and no more. |
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I've been using it for servers on Intel too (instead of SuSE) |
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but i think now you're forgetting about the PPC plattform, after having SPARC. |
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first, it was with KDE 3.0.3; it has been available for some weeks now, and |
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you have it on the portage system... but only for x6. why? it has been |
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compiled and tested on all plattforms! |
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today i wanted to see if there was an update to kdevelop. but i found it's |
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Masked!! but i have been using it for months now! |
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why??? |
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looking in the .ebuild files, it says it's for x86 and sparc. but i had it |
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installed on ppc before! |
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please! don't forget the PPC platform! |
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and it would also be nice if you had any indication why all those packages are |
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masked... it's so frustrating to read about some nice software for linux, |
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doing an emerge -s to see it's there, but not for me! |
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remember... not everbody is using MacOS X |
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Javier |
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