Other Distros (NOT A FLAMEWAR TOPIC!!)

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 23:29:07 -0700
"Miles Lane" <miles.lane at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

> Yellowdog -- I used Yellowdog years ago on my Titanium PowerBook G4. 
> I liked it okay, but I gave up on Linux on PowerPC because it was
> always trailing very far behind on driver support and availability of
> bleeding edge packages.  I haven't tried Ubuntu for PPC.  I should
> probably give it a shot.  Still, YaBoot and all that was always a
> pain.  PCs have a little easier to use partitioning. 

You might enjoy Ubuntu for PPC. The package set is practically identical
with that for i386. The only missing pieces are the ones you might expect:
- w32codecs, obviously, which means support for Real and Windows formats
is almost non existent ( but there *is* a non-free RealPlayer available
which sort of works, some of the time..)

So-called "Airport Extreme" wireless is not supported in Breezy, but I
believe it will be in Dapper, owing to the amazing reverse-engineering
efforts of the team who have made the bcm driver work ( No thanks to
Broadcom!)

Java and flash are other areas that aren't quite there yet, as well -
personally I have little use for either, so that doesn't affect me much.

Other than that, my iBook G4 runs Ubuntu really well :) Installation was
pretty easy too - but I divided my hard drive using the disk utility on
the Apple install discs, leaving space for Ubuntu - so I had to reinstall
OS-X to get a dual-boot.

Peter

-- 

Linux User #343161