Is Copland necessary?
I've just downloaded Xubuntu 7.04 PPC with the intention of creating Copland from it.
But it seems to be an excellent PowerPC distribution - my iMac's screen started up immediately which it never did before under straight Xubuntu, there's compositing support in XFCE immediately, my Mac partitions were recognised and mounted out-of-the-box, and the only bug I've found in it was one that I couldn't fix in Copland CP! It's reasonably fast, too.
It looks like the community PowerPC team has created something very impressive; not to mention the XFCE/Xubuntu team. Frankly people, I can't see anything that I can do to improve on this. My wish was for PowerPC users to be serviced properly by a distribution which understands the pitfalls of working on this platform; it looks to my superficial eye like this has already been achieved.
Are PowerPC users left wanting of anything, other than a precompiled Gnash?
Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased and very impressed. But I'm at a loss and I have to reconsider whether I can really add anything to Xubuntu PowerPC.

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