So far, YDL isn't doing any developement work on the kernel or drivers. They do support me in some ways, they do a bunch of testing and they have a lot of work setting up a working userland environement, but most of the PowerMac driver work to support new machines is done by me on my spare time. (And I live in France ;)*Very* nice to know. Do you mean you are the main driver developer for the PowerMacs?I maintain the PowerMac port of the kernel, yes.BTW, do you have your G5 already? ;-)No :(
Personally, I have found a neat system for getting machines in the hands of developers. My last purchase was a ibook2 rev A; ordered on the day they were announced. I bought it using the apple store web site. For the shipto address, I used the address of Tom Rini who received the machine. Tom made sure the kernel/X/Debian ran on the machine and then sent it to me.
In other words, you can't expect a 2-6 person small business to keep byuing machines for people like Ben. You can however see that your next Apple purchase goes to them for a few weeks instead of directly to you. In this case, you get the machine with a small delay and you help powermac development.
Do you live in France? Are you going to buy a G5? Then put Ben down as the shipping address. Its that simple folks.....
Jeramy Smith penguinppc.org