I know Edd is probably being tongue-in-cheek with his post manifestly not at ETech, but I was stung by his comment:
Give Ubuntu PowerPC LiveCDs to all the open source people shamefully running OS X
I shamefully run OS X on my PowerPC powerbook. Why? Because there are no wireless drivers available for the built-in wireless card, and my days of carting around cards and dongles are done. Thom tells me the reason there’s no wireless support is because Broadcom built a software radio rather than just a wireless card. FCC regulations stop them releasing the source in case people use it as a software radio.
Of course, I probably wouldn’t run Ubuntu even if wifi did work. I’m done with games like messing with the kernel. I don’t care any more – when it Just Works it’s good enough for me. I did my Free Software sackcloth-and-ashes internship with two linux laptops and a handful of linux desktops (not to mention assorted cards and dongles), now I want to get something productive done TYVM.
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Yeah – all of that +1, except I never did manage to get X running on my second laptop.
Oh.. and according to http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/ there is no LiveCD for PPC.
(Just a minor point)
Oh.. and according to http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/ there is no LiveCD for PPC.
This isn’t true – I downloaded and ran the live CD 2 weeks ago. It worked fine on an older G4 machine, but kept bombing when ran on my 2ghz G5 setup.
I think it was the 2nd display (of my 2 monitor system), as it would boot fine until it initialized that 2nd monitor.
For what it’s worth…