[ubuntu-uk] iMac G4

[Tony Travis]

Andrew Barber wrote:
> Hey Tony,
> I am also using Ubuntu on an iBook G4 and have found it to be a nice 
> alternative to OSX. I have also successfully installed Feisty from the 
> community work ongoing to supple people like us with a nice GNU/Linux 
> distro.

Hello, Andrew.

It was the community version of Feisty for PPC that I couldn't boot. 
I've burnt another CD and this one works OK, so it must have been the 
CD. I've replaced the Dapper I installed previously with Feisty now.

> If you have any problems, ping me on IRC. You will find me in the 
> ubuntu-uk channel, or you are welcome to private message me at any time. 
> My nick is AndrewB

I'm embarrased to say that I now use Skype chat (as "ajtravis") because 
many of the people I talk to are on Skype. I did use IRC ChatZilla until 
I switched to FireFox (tried SeaMonkey, for a while but decided to use 
FireFox). I'm dithering about Thunderbird now Mozilla are 'demoting' it 
to a community version in a similar way to SeaMonkey...

> Hope all is going well so far.

Seems OK, but PPC Java was a problem until I read about "medibuntu"!

	http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/

I've got to say that the iMac is quite slow in comparison to my old 
Athlon 2400+ desktop. However, it has got a very nice display :-)

I tried using my iMac as a 'thin' client, with the SSHVnc Java applet:

	http://freshmeat.net/projects/sshvnc/?branch_id=40526

Executing Java was quite slow on the iMac G4 PPC, but I got a better 
response using "xtightvncviewer" instead, so it wasn't my Broadband 
connection that was limiting the speed of VNC display updates...

I've been using the system monitor to see how busy my iMac was doing 
various tasks. It's quite good for an 'old' computer, and lots better 
under Ubuntu than it was under the version of MacOSX it had on it!

	Tony.
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