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[Mari <saltycat77@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

First let me thank you for all the work you and your team do on 
Lubuntu-I am a big fan! I have installed it on many old computers and it 
performs well! I also love how it can be easily customized to one's liking.

Here are a couple of screenshots of Lubuntu 12.04 (I installed some icon 
and Openbox themes as well as Docky) running on a Powermac G4 7400 512 
mb ram. Its usable and while it does have some issues, I'm sure I will 
be able to sort them out. It was more of a proof of concept as I was 
given several old PPC powermacs and wanted to see if I could get them to 
run something other than OS X before saying goodbye to them.

But I am disappointed by the lack of PPC support-they are old computers 
people like to keep. Its mainly the issue with the old ATI rage Pro 128 
cards which is slowing down the install and keeping it from running 
optimally (it should, in my opinion, run at least as well as OS X Tiger 
does and, in fact, should run faster).  While there seems to be a fix 
out there that Debian still maintains, Ubuntu dropped support for the 
PPC some time ago and I had trouble compiling the necessary files for 
installation on the powermac. I'm sure I will sort it out eventually but 
its clearly not for the novice.

I wonder if there might be a way to maintain a Lubuntu repo for these 
old PPC computers, since Lubuntu is great for older hardware.

Anyway, I would be happy to work with you all on any PPC issues-I have a 
lot of spare time as I am physically disabled, thus I spend a lot of 
time at home.

Thanks again!

Mari

PS Wrote this on an HP Pavilion Athlon 64 X2 running Lubuntu 14.04 :)

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