9:37 a.m.
Hello — I’m completely new to Adélie Linux and have been brought here on a recommendation
from ActionRetro on YouTube who was advocating this distro for use on PPC and had tested
it on a somewhat ancient iMac G3.
Having read a review elsewhere, I understand that Adélie is still at the stage where
everything has to be communicated through CLI.
Therefore, because (other than copy+paste and some basics) command line syntax is
something I am never going to learn — ever — I am very curious to learn how long it may be
(2021, 2022, 2023…), before a version of Adélie exists for most platforms (particularly
PPC + SunSPARC), with fully functional GUI installers and OS with full, easy GUI and
access to basic programs and codecs (akin to Linux Mints’ optional proprietary
repositories auto-install), where users don’t need, for example, to download and figure
out how the hell to install drivers just to get (say) WiFi up and running — and there’s a
Synaptic-type package manager for hassle-free software installs.
“How long is a piece of string?”. It’s an unreasonable question, I know.
Ball Park idea? A year, perhaps? Two? Ever?
It’s probably awful (even infuriating) for you guys and girls working on CLI every day, to
hear users utterly refuse to use it and demand (request), instead, a pretty OS interface
just to then use it on PowerPC G3’s and stacks of old Sun servers.
It’s an unenviable task you have for sure, yet curiosity demands I have to ask: partly
because nobody has, so far as I’m aware, despite their claims, come up with a linux
operating system which works 100% perfectly as a daily driver on PPC architecture or for
HA clustering, but mostly because I want to have fun with what you’ve created — so please
forgive me.
Thank you so much!
Best regards,
Steve