On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:52:29AM +0100, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
I am a Mac user with an interest in Linux. I have a PowerBook G4 867Mhz with 1GB of RAM, so am looking at the PowerPC ports of Ubuntu.
I spoke to a couple of people that said the latest version - 9.04 - doesn't run too well on machines under 1Ghz, so was looking at Xubuntu which is better suited for older machines. It says it will run on G3 with 128MB of RAM comfortably - making it probably pretty quick on a machine with mid range G4 with 1GB.
I run xubuntu 8.10, I'll be upgrading to 9.04 soon[ish]. I don't run it because of its lesser resource use, I just like it better.
Has anyone used Xubuntu? Does it differ much to Ubuntu apart from using the XFE desktop environment? Does the latest 9.04 support Broadcom based Airport Extreme cards - I have a Buffalo card which OSX picks up as an AE card.
The issue you get running xubuntu rather than ubuntu is that you have to "read between the lines" a bit when seeking support as the bulk of ubuntu support assumes you are running ubuntu with gnome menus etc. All the basic stuff can be found in xubuntu but it's sometimes in different places, then in addition you can quite happily run and install gnome applications in xubuntu if xubuntu doesn't have what you want 'native'.