Mac G5 support

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Oct 11 13:04:27 UTC 2006


On 08/10/06, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> jekillen wrote:
> > Hello; I have combed the wiki to find what Macs
> > are supported and I don't see G5 specifically
>
> Yes, we support Ubuntu on G5 systems, several of our developers own and
> run them as their primary or development machines.

Note however that quite a few people (myself included) seeem to have
problems with the kernel
not recognizing SATA drives in some iMacs correctly.    While breezy
installed ok on
this Mac (a G5 1.6) dapper will not - and upgrading to dapper from breezy causes
the problem to resurface.

I'm waiting for Edgy to try again...

Brian




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