{"id":279,"date":"2005-05-24T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-24T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Miscellany\/ubuntu.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2005\/05\/24\/ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"UbuntuBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have this thing for playing with new operating systems.  I&#8217;ve built bunches of Linux boxes over the years, which I never really use for much, especially now that I have two Macs running OS X.  I even tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxfromscratch.org\/lfs\/news.html\">Linux From Scratch<\/a> once.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent release of version 5.04 of <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntulinux.org\">Ubuntu Linux<\/a>, I decided to play around.  I was pleased to see they offer a Live CD (bootable Linux Desktop on a CD, no install needed) for PowerPC (Mac) as well as Intel x86 (PC) machines.  I decided to try booting it up on my 15&#8243; Ti Powerbook.  It worked&#8230; I&#8217;m posting this from Firefox under Ubuntu.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jclark.org\/images\/pbubuntu.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu Screenshot\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t exactly stretched its limits, but it seems to work very nicely.  Firefox is present, as is Evolution for mail (haven&#8217;t tried it, but folks seem to like it), Gaim for Instant Messaging, The Gimp for image editing, and OpenOffice for office-style applications.  It feels a little slow, but it is running from the CD and ramdisk (memory).  Slowdowns seem to coincide with CD access, so I&#8217;m guessing a full install would be snappier.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not contemplating switching away from OS X, but it&#8217;s nice to see I have a viable option for my existing hardware if I did want to.  Also, Sherri&#8217;s Windows XP laptop is getting slower and slower, and desparately needs a wipe and fresh XP install.  However, I don&#8217;t have XP install media, since the laptop only came with a restore disk (lost at the moment), and besides, the default install wasn&#8217;t very clean.  Instead of spending $129 for XP, I may have her give Ubuntu a try for a few days.  I&#8217;m sure an actual installation would fly compared to her XP install.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have this thing for playing with new operating systems. I&#8217;ve built bunches of Linux boxes over the years, which I never really use for much, especially now that I have two Macs running OS X. I even tried Linux From Scratch once. With the recent release of version 5.04 of Ubuntu Linux, I [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}