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.
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.
Secondly,
I'd like some booting advice. I am triple booting OS9, OSX Tiger and OSX Leopard at the moment and was looking to maybe quad boot - so I would need to resize some of the partitions. Or I might just install it where the Tiger partition is.
Does the Xubuntu installer cater for multi booting with OSX? Is there an option to select which OS is the default to boot into.
I had Ubuntu 6 and Tiger on a PowerBook G3 before and could never get Yaboot to select OSX by default.
Any help would be grateful.
Simon Royal --- Visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Or Skype me on 'Simon-Royal'. (Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5, 10.4 & 9.2.2...)
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'.
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Chris G -
Simon Royal