Powerbook G3 "Lombard" on Xubuntu
Friday, 23. November 2007, 09:30:16
I have an ancient Powerbook G3 from 1999. I am still using it on a daily basis.
The last transition in OSX, from Tiger to Leopard, made my system un-upgradable, since I don't have a DVD-player onboard. (To use Tiger, ik installed a nifty program called XPostFacto). Leopard ships DVD-only.
Well... that made my system MORE than vintage.... Current software like NeoOffice (the MacOSX port of OpenOffice) was too slow to work with, Camino didn't respont that snappy as I want it to and from now I'm not able to upgrade. New Leopard-only software? I can't use it.
Time to ditch my laptop, then? Didn't think so.
I installed Xubuntu 7.04, a user-friendly Linux-distro with the lightweight XFCE-desktop manager. My idea: The most recent Linux-kernel (so to speak: the engine of the operating system is still able to run quiet snappy on elder systems (Pentium II, Power PC, et cetera).
XFCE is not as astonishing beautiful as OSX is, but it asks little recourses of your system. The looks are... well.. fair, but I must say: OpenOffice runs speedy enough, the whole system is quiet up to date again. I have changed my desktop-background, but for the rest it is quiet default.
The last transition in OSX, from Tiger to Leopard, made my system un-upgradable, since I don't have a DVD-player onboard. (To use Tiger, ik installed a nifty program called XPostFacto). Leopard ships DVD-only.
Well... that made my system MORE than vintage.... Current software like NeoOffice (the MacOSX port of OpenOffice) was too slow to work with, Camino didn't respont that snappy as I want it to and from now I'm not able to upgrade. New Leopard-only software? I can't use it.
Time to ditch my laptop, then? Didn't think so.
I installed Xubuntu 7.04, a user-friendly Linux-distro with the lightweight XFCE-desktop manager. My idea: The most recent Linux-kernel (so to speak: the engine of the operating system is still able to run quiet snappy on elder systems (Pentium II, Power PC, et cetera). XFCE is not as astonishing beautiful as OSX is, but it asks little recourses of your system. The looks are... well.. fair, but I must say: OpenOffice runs speedy enough, the whole system is quiet up to date again. I have changed my desktop-background, but for the rest it is quiet default.
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-Chris
By christopher3071, # 26. January 2008, 19:06:36