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Feedback Results on Copland:

1. It was a good idea.

2. It's not a necessary distribution anymore because (X)Ubuntu Feisty is so good.

3. The classic MacOS-styled desktop was difficult for certain people to use (understandable, I find the OS X desktop difficult to use), but others liked it and would continue using it in the future.

4. The community preview version of the distro was too unstable and buggy.

5. I should help the PowerPC community team.

Number 5 is something I can't really do - I don't get enough download allowance to download Tribes and Dailys, and I don't have enough coding knowledge to debug anything written in a language other than Python.

Number 4 I agree with.

Number 3, about the OS 9 desktop, is something I might consider implementing in Gnome as well as XFCE, and offering it as a kind of one-in-one-out pack for Ubuntu and Xubuntu on all arches.

Number 1 and 2 I agree with.

Here's the deal: I want to contribute to PowerPC users. I'm thinking I might do that through learning again how to create Debian packages, and creating those for the latest versions of programs and stuff like that. Long-time readers will know that I once created a real Debian package for the game Bloboats, but unfortunately it could've caused system breakage.

My only concern is how to back up my father's data on the iMac before I attempt to install Xubuntu Feisty on it. I don't have another Mac, so how on earth will I preserve the resource forks of the files? The only things I can think of are to create disk images of the partitions and put them onto the external hard drive, or binhex everything.

Disk images is probably the better idea, as long as they aren't over 4 gigabytes (the iMac can only access the Fat32 partition of the external hard drive, and Fat32 has a filesize limit of 4 gigabytes).