Public bug reported:
Hi.
For some weeks now, I have been trying to get a live CD to test Ubuntu
with an iBook G3, 600MHz, Combo, 12" (the 'almost netbook one') and my
successive visits to cdimage.ubuntu.com have not turned many encouraging
results.
I am aware that some of the earlier bug reports say that Daily CDs were
not produced for PowerPCs. This is not exactly what I am talking about.
Most of the time, I *can* find a Daily CD for PowerPC, but,
unfortunately, they are almost always oversized and don't fit on a 700MB
cd, which is one of the only possibilities for me to test newer
releases.
More precisely speaking, I am not able to find a "vanilla" (Mac) PowerPC
Daily-Live ("desktop) CD, nor a Daily ("alternate") CD, with both of
them frequently oversized.
This not only happens with Ubuntu proper, but also with Xubuntu and with
Kubuntu. Is there anything that I could do here to help you guys?
I am willing to join the efforts so that we can actually get a good Free
Software release for "Apple-orphaned" computers that are working
perfectly and, with the release of Snow Leopard, it seems that Apple has
dropped every support for PowerPCs (of course, their cash-cow of iTunes
+ iTunes Music Store is still supported, but no updates for people like
me that have G3-based systems and are stuck with MacOS X 10.4 and
ancient software for development---Python 2.3 is the first that comes to
mind).
This would, of course, be a superb opportunity to get a Free Software to
liberate the potential of said machines so that they can run modern
applications having productivity features for the users.
This could easily be an advertising point for the release or karmic and
getting everything packaged on an even finer level for the LTS
distribution would bring peace of mind for Mac users that have already
invested a good quantity of money on hardware that is already working to
their expectations (especially for people in parts of the world where
upgrading hardware is not as easy as in others).
So, if I could find CDs like the beta release or the release candidate,
I would be glad to help (well, actually, even testing a non-formal pre-
release would be nice).
So, if anything can be done, just let me know.
Regards, Rogério.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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powepc cd images either oversized or not currently built
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442803
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