Ubuntu PPC 4.10 Installed on new Mac Mini

[Will Backman]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 15:24 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > > This is sooo Linuxish.. *ducking for stones*
> > >
> > > "no audio, no video, but it works great!"  ;D
> 
> This hurt so bad :) :) :)
> 
> > Yes, I find this amazing myself. Ubuntu is so unstable on my machine,
> > that it undoublty crashed 10 times more in 3 months, than Windows XP has
> > ever crashed in 2 years. Yet somehow, I have never, ever, even remotely,
> > considered switching back to Win XP.
> 
> Probably b/c it's not as unstable as Windows 98 was "back in the day".
> 10 times in three months. I'd be happy if Win 98 didn't crash 10 times
> in one day ;P... plus, Linux is still a pretty new OS... it's coming
> along nicely (two years ago I couldn't get into it... now it's easy
> enough that even I can figure things out).
> 
> > Linux&Ubuntu are so great, that even when it crashes, freezes or seg
> > faults, it still puts a banana like smile on my face everytime I see
> > GDM's log-in screen then my Gnome desktop.
> > I think these Penguins have are truly magic ! :-)
> > 
> > Vince, waiting for Hoary to be released, hoping that it will be more
> > stable........
> 
> Why wait, I have run into a grand total of one kernel seg fault, it
> was my fault and I've got to figure out where to file that bug report
> (where it won't immediately be dismissed out of hand by someone as
> "you shouldn't do that")...
> 
> I shut my laptop's lid (ergo putting it to sleep), pulled out my USB
> TurboMouse while the lid was shut, it woke up, wouldn't go back to
> sleep again so I opened up the lid and it reported a kernel seg fault
> and Ubuntu was having problems with eth1. Ideally, waking up in that
> situation should cause the laptop to go through the wake up procedure,
> promptly followed by another sleep procedure.
> 
> Eric.
> 

I think it says a lot that it installs on a very very new piece of
hardware that developers never had a chance to play with.

-- 
Will Backman
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.

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