Copland PPC distribution released

Dave Hall ubuntu at skwashd.com
Tue May 22 13:12:00 BST 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:25 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote:
> Sorry, I was rather tight-lipped about Copland, wasn't I?
> 
> Anyway, here's the story. Although Ubuntu runs on PowerPC machines, it
> never really felt like it was designed for them, or for the kind of
> people who might be running Linux on a Mac.
> 
> After official support was dropped last year for the PPC architecture, I
> decided to create a spin-off distribution, which would release only for
> PPC and be targetted directly at those machines and their users. In
> particular, I wanted the long-standing bugs from Ubuntu PPC to be fixed
> (iMac blank screens in particular - it's a showstopper that nobody else
> has bothered to fix).
> 
> So here it is. Copland PPC is even more lightweight than Xubuntu (it
> also uses XFCE), has a Classic Mac-like appearance, fixes a couple of
> PowerPC-related gotchas, and provides custom-written utilities to aid
> the switching Mac user. These utilities are HFS Browser, which allows
> the user to graphically access their existing Mac partitions and
> CD-ROMs; and Aiff Interchange, which converts Apple's Audio Interchange
> File Format files to WAV or FLAC.

How does it run on G3 macs?  I currently have a powerbook lombard
running xubuntu dapper and just landed a G3 iMac (a blue not an aqua).
I am happy to help with some testing (especially on the iMac)

Cheers

Dave




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