Hey Ben, sorry for the late post, yeah I've had a look at ubuntu but havn't tried the live cd yet. It's an old-world G3 thats been sucking most of my time, so i'm not sure it would work. I've got debian installed and working with a 2.4 kernel, but main problem now is getting X to work wiv an old fixed refresh rate monitor. Got the ati drivers going the other day, but still no joy. I had the machine working with an old copy of Yellowdog (RedHat) and tried just copying the xfree86.config file.. - If anyone thinks they can help lemme know and il'll send in specs.

Gonna give debian/ubuntu a go on my powerbook once i have the money to hookup a new harddrive, i 'll need to dual boot as I need a mac partition for my work.

As for airport extream, is it that the drivers are still closed source? I've been looking into getting an original airport card but the prices on ebay are mad!!

Cheers

-Gareth -- "All our knowledge – past, present and future – is nothing compared to what we will never know."

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I've been spending most of my time jostling with Debain getting it installed and working on some old world machines to give me something new to play with.

Welcome!

Have you seen the Ubuntu Linux Live CD for powerpc? http://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/releases/hoary/current/

I tried it on my iBook at work and it looked very good, I've installed Ubuntu on an iBook before with the "Warty Warthog" release. Unfortunately the new wireless cards aren't supported because the specs haven't been released but pretty much everything else works. I'd be interested to hear how it copes on older kit but you might be right sticking to Debian for those.

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