iBook G3/700 & Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-07 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Well I thought I'd give my old iBook G3 some new life by installing Jaunty Jackalope as I kept hearing about Ubuntu and how great it is. All I can say is if you're a regular Joe computer user, Linux is still not for you IMHO. I don't understand how an OS (Linux) after all these years and with all

Re: iBook G3/700 & Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-08 Thread Mark
Arnel Tuazon wrote: > Well I thought I'd give my old iBook G3 some new life by installing Jaunty > Jackalope as I kept hearing about Ubuntu and how great it is. All I can say > is if you're a regular Joe computer user, Linux is still not for you IMHO. > I don't understand how an OS (Linux) afte

Re: iBook G3/700 & Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-09 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 08/08/09 8:48 AM, "Mark" wrote: > That version of Ubuntu is not the latest and greatest - but yeah the > latest and greatest still isn't exactly ready for the masses. > Adobe plug ins for Linux are distributed the same as for Mac & Windows. > Not sure why that was a problem. > I'd be happy j

Re: iBook G3/700 & Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-09 Thread Mark
Arnel Tuazon wrote: > On 08/08/09 8:48 AM, "Mark" wrote: > > > >> That version of Ubuntu is not the latest and greatest - but yeah the >> latest and greatest still isn't exactly ready for the masses. >> Adobe plug ins for Linux are distributed the same as for Mac & Windows. >> Not sure why t

Re: iBook G3/700 & Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-09 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 09/08/09 9:18 PM, "Mark" wrote: > I was mistaken. I guess. I thot Ubuntu on PPC crapped out at, like, > version 6. While the system requirements for 9.04 stipulates an intel > CPU, I see 9.04 alphas & betas ? > whatever. > Fedora is still porting PPC versions > http://fedoraproject.org/en

Re: iBook G3/700 & Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-10 Thread Liam Proven
2009/8/8 Arnel Tuazon : > > Well I thought I'd give my old iBook G3 some new life by installing Jaunty > Jackalope as I kept hearing about Ubuntu and how great it is.  All I can say > is if you're a regular Joe computer user, Linux is still not for you IMHO. > I don't understand how an OS (Linux)