Comments on: Why run Ubuntu on a G4 Mac? http://about.phalacee.com/geek/linux/what-is-wrong-about-running-ubuntu-on-a-g4-mac Jesus thinks you're to die for Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew Kember http://about.phalacee.com/geek/linux/what-is-wrong-about-running-ubuntu-on-a-g4-mac/comment-page-1#comment-5 Andrew Kember Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:39:26 +0000 http://about.phalacee.com/?p=15#comment-5 That sounds good - I'll give it a go. It'll only get used as a server, or maybe for a bit of web browsing, so I'm sure it could cope. That sounds good – I’ll give it a go. It’ll only get used as a server, or maybe for a bit of web browsing, so I’m sure it could cope.

]]> By: Jason http://about.phalacee.com/geek/linux/what-is-wrong-about-running-ubuntu-on-a-g4-mac/comment-page-1#comment-4 Jason Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:54:41 +0000 http://about.phalacee.com/?p=15#comment-4 Hello Andrew, congratulations on being the first to post a comment on my journal! Thank you. I gave up trying to get Breezy to upgrade, I'm just downloading a n ISO of Feisty instead. I found out the reason it wouldn't upgrade from Breezy to Feisty is because Ubuntu (and most Debian-based Distros) do not support using the apt-get dist-upgrade the skip versions. That means I would have had to go from Breezy to Dapper to Edgy to Feisty. So I am just waiting for the torrent of the Feisty PPC ISO to finish, then I'll install it. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work though... I have a 800 Mhz Power Mac at work that I use as a PHP development server, its running Feisty on it, although I disabled the GUI and only access it via SSH, so I don't know how well it would perform as a desktop machine. Hello Andrew, congratulations on being the first to post a comment on my journal! Thank you.

I gave up trying to get Breezy to upgrade, I’m just downloading a n ISO of Feisty instead. I found out the reason it wouldn’t upgrade from Breezy to Feisty is because Ubuntu (and most Debian-based Distros) do not support using the apt-get dist-upgrade the skip versions. That means I would have had to go from Breezy to Dapper to Edgy to Feisty.

So I am just waiting for the torrent of the Feisty PPC ISO to finish, then I’ll install it. I can’t think of any reason why it wouldn’t work though…

I have a 800 Mhz Power Mac at work that I use as a PHP development server, its running Feisty on it, although I disabled the GUI and only access it via SSH, so I don’t know how well it would perform as a desktop machine.

]]> By: Andrew Kember http://about.phalacee.com/geek/linux/what-is-wrong-about-running-ubuntu-on-a-g4-mac/comment-page-1#comment-3 Andrew Kember Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:20:57 +0000 http://about.phalacee.com/?p=15#comment-3 Ah - I might be able to lay my hands on an old mac in the near future. Perhaps I could get Ubuntu on it like you. Did you have any success with Feisty (or Gutsy)? Ah – I might be able to lay my hands on an old mac in the near future. Perhaps I could get Ubuntu on it like you. Did you have any success with Feisty (or Gutsy)?

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