Ubuntu 4.10

[Eric Dunbar]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:04:01 -0500, GDB-B&W-X.3.6 <slugg0 at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > Well, I managed to back up my 20 GB drive (over 802.11b... to disk
> > images on my YDL server) and now have Unbuntu up and running. The
> > install was as easy for YDL 3.0.1!
> 
> So a G4 or better is NOT necessary for this distro?  According to the
> web page it says it is.  Nice to know as I already downloaded it for a
> future install.  So how well does it run on the G3/400?  If I ever get
> this B&W 400 fixed so it will boot properly I might give it a shot.
> 
> Just a message from Doug...

The web page is a little ambiguous in its phrasing (probably out of
date). I believe they say something like iBooks and Powerbooks, G4 and
G5s. If they support PowerBook G3s & iBooks I suspect they also
support the B&W G3 and the early iMacs (since the PowerBook Pismo and
all the newer iBook G3s are essentially the laptop analogues (albeit
faster and in a smaller package) to the B&W G3 and the iMac DV).

AFAI can tell any NewWorld Mac is supported. Debian supports OldWorld
Macs so I imagine that support for OldWorld is only a RAM disk away
(someone knowledgeable enough wanna give it a try?).

As for how it runs... well, I don't have anything against which to
compare it. It runs nicely though you can really see how good a job
Apple has done with OS X b/c I don't really find the GUI any faster
than OS X 10.3.6 on the same machine (even though the GNOME GUI is
much less CPU intensive). I do find it a touch faster than the Beige
G3/266 128 MB RAM but not blazingly so (less disk grinding, I think).
Overall, the feel is slicker but that'll simply be the new version of
GNOME! YDL 4.0 will offer the same experience but with a larger
package (& supposedly Ubuntu offers a larger and more frequently
updated set of packages).

As for Fran:
> What kernel comes with Ubuntu?  I've been watching it for my old iMac.

No idea. Why not check out <http://www.ubuntulinux.org/>?

FYI Their philosphy is that they will pick bleeding edge packages
(latest GNOME, etc.) for their six-monthly releases but make sure that
updates are readily available and packages are updated on an on-going
basis.

PS Am I correct in assuming that /home/ has replaced /user/ in the
world of GNU/Linux? (both YDL (Fedora) & Ubuntu (Debian) use this)?

PSS Ubuntu's version numbers function like this...
oneortwodigityearofrelease.oneortwodigitmonthofrelease, so the "warty
hedgehog" is 4.10 (the next release should be 5.4).

Eric.