Do you ubuntu?

[j4]

I've been watching (mostly via her twitterings on the subject) the saga of famous librarian Jessamyn installing Ubuntu on a library computer; it's a heartwarming tale, but it's made a kind of bittersweet parallel to my own tale of woe as I've completely failed to get anything other than OS 9 installed on my old G3 Mac, due to its apparent inability to boot from anything other than its own 60GB-of-pure-stubborness hard drive. (It's a long, frustrating and not terribly interesting story.) Today, even the Motley Fool is raving about Ubuntu. I feel as though someone's laughing at me.

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Have you found this page yet? (http://www.gifford.co.uk/~coredump/beigeg3.htm)

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ah! No! Why didn't that come up when I was googling? Thank you!! That's my plans for the evening sorted out, then.... :-)

[i-ludicrous.livejournal.com]

Not coming to see Danny George Wilson at the QI then?

[j4.livejournal.com]

Never heard of him! Was he any good then? Also, actually I had other plans for the evening that were more exciting than installing ubuntu :-) but conveniently forgot that for the purpose of poetic licence etc etc.

[i-ludicrous.livejournal.com]

Very good actually :-) The QI is a very odd place to go to gigs though... hatmandu describes it rather well here (http://hatmandu.livejournal.com/141687.html).

[j4.livejournal.com]

I was there for Ape Has Killed Ape! et al as part of the Oxford Punt, remember... :-) It seemed like quite a good venue despite the weird shape, and their cocktails were lovely. It'll be interesting to see what the new owners (http://www.theoxfordtimes.net/mostpopular.var.1389126.mostviewed.new_owner_for_trendy_qi_club.php) do with the place.

[cjwatson]

Yeah, that page looks vaguely reasonable. It's unfortunate that the only known ways of booting OldWorld Macs like the beige G3 from CD involve bits of proprietary Apple code that we aren't legally allowed to redistribute. :-(