I am in the boat of people with an iBook G4, and Leopard is running pretty slow. I would love to have some cloud-based operating system run natively on it. Of course, gOS would be the first preference.
Graham Todd wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:26:44 -0800 (PST) > mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yes. > > > > This question has been answered, just search for "macbook", with the > > "search in this group" option. > [snipped] > > This is perfectly correct, but it applies ONLY to those laptops > supplied by Apple who have an Intel chip in them. It DOES NOT apply to > those laptops which are PowerPC (PPC) based, such as the iBook. There > is not a version of gOS for ANY PPC-based Macs. > > I think there is a real need for Ubuntu-based distros to support PPC > based machines: they are often very powerful and being disposed by > corporations in favour of later (Intel + PPC) machines at very low cost. > I think the Ubuntu family decided to no longer support PPC in the 6.10 > release, so if gOS is to support PPC based machines, it'll be be doing > so by itself. > > You can, of course, still get a Debian version for the PPC, but it > would be far more satisfactory for the older desktop hardware if there > would be a version of Linux that has the web based applications > available out of the box. > > A version of gOS based on Debian for the PPC would fill the bill > nicely. What do others feel? > > -- > Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
