My first Ubuntu Linux Experiment
March 20th, 2008
Hypothesis
Ubuntu 7.10 looks interesting, but it cannot replace Mac OS X as my primary operating system.
Experiment
I did not want to break my main desktop computer, so I first tried Ubuntu 7.10 on my 17″ 1.25 GHz G4 Powerbook. At that time the Power PC (PPC) version of Ubuntu was already officially unsupported, but the Ubuntu PPC community was very active so I gave it a go.
Despite having never played with Linux (except for using Yellow Dog Linux for 10 minutes about 6 years ago) the download, burning of the boot disk, and install went rather well. Everything worked up to and until I booted the laptop off its own hard-drive. It would not boot at all. I hit a black screen.
