[nmglug] G4 iBook and Ubuntu?

[Jeffrey Miller]

I am thinking our PPC dual boot iMacs were running Edubuntu version 6.  Possibly 7.  We had Mac OC 10.3 on the other partition.  We moved to Edubuntu Version 9 when we moved to Intel iMacs.  We had a triple boot that ran 10.4, XP and Edubuntu.

I’ll look around to see if I can find a copy of the PPC Edubuntu image we used.

Peace

Jeffrey
Socorro Schools

On May 8, 2014, at 10:11, Satsangat Khalsa <satsangat at khalsa.com> wrote:

> I found Linux Mint kept up on versions for PPC/Mac, but I haven't tried to bring up powerbooks in some time.   Debian had options, as well.  I think these would be the best.  The Fedora track (Yellow Dog Linux) moved into building Playstation OS and I don't think they're active with PPC?Mac anymore. 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:56 AM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
> Hmm,
> I used to run Ubuntu on my G4 powerbook with no problem, other than the fact that less and less support was offered for the PPC platform as time wore on. I think I gave up around versions 6.x as flash and other issues became a pain. In any case, I never had trouble and saw no B43 driver issues. Maybe you could try an older version? What version is Ubuntu even issuing for PPC? I found Debian to be the best and even Fedora worked better.
> 
> Brian
> 
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> On 05/07/2014 07:50 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
> NMGLug'ers,  Well the message is I have made a disk for Rob to try
> Ubuntu on his iBiook. I couldn't get the Mac to fully boot, it hangs
> on dev, complains about the usual "missing B43 drivers."  I wonder if
> we can find a good ppc image that will boot or if we can convince this
> one to go ahead without the b43 firmware.
> Thanks, Ted P.
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