[G5] Ubuntu on G5 single anyone?

[Brian Durant]

Yeah, I saw that as well. I downloaded the latest Kubuntu Live CD, but
it doesn't seem to work with my Apple Bluetooth keyboard or the
Bluetooth kicks in too late for me to get the "c" key to work at boot
time.

Cheers,

Brian

On 9/20/05, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> >I have been thinking about trying o install Ubuntu Linux or the KDE
> >counterpart Kubuntu on my G5 single. I have an extra drive in my G5
> >that I could install on, but concerns about Bluetooth and Mighty Mouse
> >support have kept me from trying. Anyone on the list with any
> >experience they would like to share?
> 
> No, but I've been threatening to boot up my G5 2x2 from a copy of
> Ubuntu that I got recently.  I'm not about to actually try to install
> it, I'm just curious to see it running.  For me it doesn't make any
> real sense to try to run Linux on a Mac.  The only real use I have
> for Linux is a couple of Linux/x86 specific apps (partially written
> in x86 ASM).
> 
> Based on a couple of reviews that Anandtech ran recently on the
> server side, it would be interesting to try to figure out how Linux
> on a G5 compares to Mac OS X for user apps.  For the server testing
> they were doing, Linux was up to 8x faster :^(
> 
>                 Zane
> 
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