Ubuntu on a Mac

I’ve been wanting to get a linux install at home but haven’t been able to decide on which one to use. Then I ran across Ubuntu, and that’s what I’m using now to wrtie this post.

What decided it for me were two things. First is that everything I read indicated Ubuntu was really easy to use, but more importantly it’s one of the few installs I’ve seen that supports both Intel and PowerPC. I’ve now got Ubuntu installed on two ancient machines at home–a wheezing old ThinkPad 390C and an almost-as-old G3 PowerMac.

In fact I’m using the PowerPC version to compose this entry. It’s a little weird, but cool to have the same OS running on both platforms.

Next step is to set up Apache on this PowerPC and use it as my personal Web server. Hope to get that done this week.

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Published:
November 6, 2005 / 11:36 pm
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