Hej Jordan,
My experience is from a G5, but everyone with an Apple based computer is
pretty much in the same lurch these days. Most things work fine in
Debian Lenny PPC. The Debian team seems to do their best for us orphans,
whereas Ubuntu sometimes has the feel of being a part-time project since
it became a community effort. Gnash and swfdec are both terrible and the
only way that you can view You Tube in a browser. Ubuntu hasn't even
bothered to include these in the default Karmic PPC install. An
alternative is to use Download Helper, a Firefox extension. Video
otherwise works fine for me. So does audio. If you use
Thunderbird/Icedove, there is a small issue with the Lightning and
Provider for Google Calendar extensions in Debian. In general, you have
to get used to first checking Synaptic/Aptitude for available
Firefox/Iceweasel and Thunderbird/Icedove extensions, which is counter
intuitive as per the way you normally add extensions for Firefox and
Thunderbird, but the bonus is that you find PPC versions of some of the
most popular and geeky extensions.
In my opinion, much has been done to try to make Debian PPC as good a
distro as the PC version. Unfortunately, the same can't always be said
for the Ubuntu Karmic PPC.
Here is the Ubuntu Karmic PPC URL in case you need it:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/
Jordan Force wrote:
Hi,
I was considering putting Ubuntu on my ibook G4, and I was wondering:
Would the setup for ubuntu be significantly easier than debian? I
mean, would installing the system and getting things like wireless and
sound to work be harder in Debian than Ubuntu?
Thanks,
Jordan
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