Ubuntu 4.10

[Francis X. Maier]

Fellas,

I just installed Ubuntu on my old iMac G3/333 while I wait for YDL4 to 
arrive, and I'm surprised at how well it runs.  Installation was 
effortless; it recognized my Airport card immediately.   Synaptic runs 
great.  Virtually no configuration involved.  Very nifty.

Fran


On Nov 11, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Greg Hamilton wrote:

> R. McFarlane wrote:
>> At 06:07 AM 11/11/2004, Brian McKee, had this to say :
>>>>         I had thought of installing Ubuntu but given that it can 
>>>> not use existing package management files , that kind of puts me 
>>>> off. I don't mind "rolling my own" (a.k.a. compiling from source) 
>>>> but to do it for everything I want gets to be a lot of work. I much 
>>>> prefer yum!
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you explain your concern better to me?  Ubuntu has 'apt' which 
>>> is often called the best of the package management systems.  Debian 
>>> people sure think so anyway :-)   I would think it at least the 
>>> equal of yum.
>>>  And while I haven't looked I thought the ppc packages available 
>>> were pretty extensive... What don't I know?
>>         If apt is able to do a "list" function I sure would like to 
>> know. Yum lets me "search" the repositories and I can do this all 
>> from console, no GUI needed.
>
> Read the man pages for apt-cache and dpkg. I think you'll be 
> pleasantly surprised.
>
> Greg
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