On 2/14/10 7:29 PM, williamd wrote:
On 14 Feb 2010, at 08.52, Tim wrote:
I have a 700 MHz G4 eMac that I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on.
I've been reading about Ubuntu but I thought anything past 6.01 or
so needed to be on an intel machine? Maybe I misread something?
To the former, Yes... and No.
Official support for PPC under Ubuntu disappeared a while back. But
there is a "community" supported version that is current.
I just tried putting it on a Sawtooth. The Live CD worked, briefly, if
I tried to do much of anything it locked up. I was able to do the
install which went okay. But it boots into a blank screen. It's likely
the same problem most of the Linux distros have, X11 isn't configured
correctly for the video card. Even theough the fix has usually been
fairly simple.
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