[conspire] Ubuntu on imac

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Oct 25 10:22:50 PDT 2007


Quoting John Andrews (jla1200 at netzero.net):

> The Ubuntu page says Kubuntu 7.10 will install on Apple Macintosh G3  
> G4 etc ibooks Power Books Does that include imacs?

The Ubuntu PowerPC FAQ, referred to earlier
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ) includes this as item 1.1:

   Q: Which Macs are compatible with Ubuntu?

   A: All NewWorld Macs should work. This means iMacs, iBooks, blue &
   white G3s, Lombard G3 PowerBooks and newer. The minimum system
   requirements are 256 MB of RAM and 3 GB of hard disk space.

   Currently as of Feisty for iBooks/Powerbooks sleep, wireless, and
   external display are all supported with models having ATI graphics.
   Owners of the 12" Powerbook G4 models with the Nvidia graphics chip:
   sleep is not possible, because of insufficient hardware information
   from Nvidia. 

So, yes.

("Insufficient hardware information" alongside "from Nvidia" is somewhat 
redundant, one notes.)

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Rick Moen
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