Thursday 1 August 2013

Re: powerpc

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 11:40:49AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 1 August 2013 11:32, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:21:02PM +0400, Василий Алексеенко wrote:
> > > Russian group "Ubuntu Linux" (~28600 members) in social network VKontakte.
> > > 639 votes (79.3%) - images PowerPC for Ubuntu are not needed anymore.
> > > 167 votes (20.7%) - images PowerPC for Ubuntu are not needed.

> > These votes seem to be for the same thing. Which one is a typo and for
> > what?

> The screenshot says:

> Should the support for PowerPC Desktop be continued?
> Yes, continue support - 20.7% (167 votes)
> No, don't support and bury it - 79.3% (639 votes)

> Which is a tad confusing, as there is no hardware to run Ubuntu
> Desktop on.

Yes, a survey that asks for people's opinions without giving technical
reasons should have no influence on this decision.

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