[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Geekathon at the Museum of Computing, Swindon

[Rob Beard]

Tony Travis wrote:
> Dennis Holdroyd wrote:
>> Thanks Rob your blog brought many happy hours back in recall with me 
>> learning to program on a ZX81 and before that a ZX80 with dad 
>> complaining I was taking over  the TV and messing about!!! he bought me 
>> an old set for my room pure bliss Den
> 
> Hello, Dennis.
> 
> You were lucky [Oh, no - not that thread again!]...
> 
> Seriously, though, there was once an interesting diversity of PC 
> hardware that has almost vanished down the Wintel plug-hole.
> 
> One of the few criticisms I would level at Ubuntu is for dropping it's 
> support of the IBM 'Power' architecture. This is not just about running 
> Ubuntu on Mac's, it's also about running Ubuntu on PS3's, which have an 
> IBM Power architecture 'Cell' processor. Sony obviously think there is a 
> market for Linux because they officially support TerraNova's Yellow Dog 
> Linux on the PS3.
> 
> Anyway, the 'community' version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) works very well 
> on my 15" LCD iMac. I'll continue using Ubuntu on it as long as I can!
> 
> 	Tony.

Hopefully the community version of Ubuntu 7.10 will work on the 
Playstation 3 too.  I'll then have another friend converted to Ubuntu.

Rob