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

[reddragdiva]

Rly? It's flawless on my G4 Quicksilver and G4 12" Powerbook. Sure it wasn't crappy hardware you had?

[jamboi.livejournal.com]

It passes apple hardware test perfectly.

Besides, I'm using an iMac G5 (ALS), so I'll be using a different (64bit) kernel. Not to mention the different sound, ethernet and graphics hardware, and a drastically different motherboard logic chipset. There's enough room there for plenty of hardware support issues that may not show up on your box. OS 10.4.9 also runs completely flawlessly.