On Oct 5, 2005, at 14:17, Andrew Fisk wrote:
Ross wrote
I recently bought an iBook 500MHz with 2 usb and firewire interface
and
Mac OS 9.2 on it. Rather than try to put OS X on it which would have
taken up a major portion of the small hard disk, I put linux on it.
The
Kubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger pre-release. I am slowly coming to the
thought of using it for all my OOo work rather than having work in two
places and syncing it all the time.
Which is a great idea -- I have no idea if Kubuntu will run on a Mac
that old -- I would try an older version before trying the newest --
the cool thing about this particular flavor of linux is that you can
download a "live" version which runs from a CD -- that way you don't
have to wipe out a functional harfd drive to test it.
take a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/
There is a link for the Kubnuntu project on the right side of the
screen -- or try the "regular" Ubuntu download for
PPC(http://www.ubuntu.com/download/). Either way I would try a live
version before installing.
I already have Kubuntu installed from the 5.10 Breezy pre-release.
Loading software is slow due to the
slow disk drive but things run quite well. Only change was from 24 to
16 bit graphics. That helped a good
bit. Friend with similar machine says that the video memory is a bit
limited for accelerated graphics at
24 bits. Had to edit a config file to get sound working. Still working
on usb wifi dongle for 802.11g. And the
unit doesn't wake from sleep properly when you open the cover. On the
other hand auto mount of usb
thumb drives works. Auto mount of Apple formatted hfs+ external
firewire drives works a charm right out
of the box!
OOo is part of the Breezy install and I notice that there are upgrades
to it when I do an apt-get dist-upgrade.
Ross
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