Ubuntu 4.10

[Francis X. Maier]

Thanks Eric, yeah, I visited the Ubuntu site several times but found no 
reference to the kernel iteration.   Which struck me as pretty odd.  
But I'll try again.

Fran


On Nov 11, 2004, at 6:31 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> 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.
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