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.

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[j4.livejournal.com]

They've only dropped official support... :-)

I know it's not the ideal combination, but I do want an Ubuntu machine at home because it's what we'll be using (and supporting!) at work; the only reason I'm using the G3 is that I've got it taking up space & want to use it for something (I've still got my flower-power iMac as an OS 9 machine, my powerbook running OS X, and an LC III running OS 8 -- I don't need another Mac OS machine really!). The fallback plan is to try to source a cheap mac laptop so I can add another machine to the menagerie without taking up any more space... (Yes, I really do want it to be a mac.)

But if I can install Ubuntu on the G3 then a) I'll be making use of the hardware I've got, and b) I'll be learning something in the process. This is the great thing about knowing so little: every day is a learning opportunity. :-)

But thank you for the suggestions nonetheless.

(BTW, also, yes, I am stubborn. :-)