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[edwards]

Today was quite lazy really. Watched Grave of the Fireflies and Totoro with banhe & TEP, had a barbeque, drank energy drink, got mentally over-stimulated and decided to install Linux on something.

6400 had BeOS on, so wasn't going to mess it up, even if BeOS seems inherently messed up on it anyway.
6500 had no OS or HD, 8.5 spat out, 9.2 wouldn't load at all.
Tripped over the G3 Colin gave me, and stuck Ubuntu 5.10 on it.

If anyone ever, ever tries to argue that Linux is 'as easy as installing Mac OS/Windows', I am going to be too busy laughing to argue. However, it does appear to be working and I even got the command-line tweaks right to mount hfs and so forth. It's still doing the last bits of install, but it's booting Linux, from the HD, and hasn't caught fire yet; I consider this progress.

Comments

[meltie.livejournal.com]

My mother is my metric. My mother couldn't install Windows and I don't remember what installing Tiger was like.

You do OS installs... for fun? Have you tried NetBSD recently?

[aidan-skinner.livejournal.com]

NetBSD? He didn't say he was trying to install it on his toaster, you fucking hippy.

- Aidan (who is drunk and spoiling for a fight after some neds ran away from him, sorry)

[edwards.livejournal.com]

Of course I have, I use various ages of OS X.

Ubuntu: It's installed, it was a PITA, and it is SO FUCKING SLOW.

Like... I have run 10.3.9 on a G3 266 with very little RAM. It's actually functional.

This... oh god. Aside from not wanting to go above 800 x 600 and being mute (WTF is it with Linux audio?), it is SO slow that even adjusting a menu item Volume control has the pointer leaping around the screen like a spacking jumping bean.

And Ubuntu is supposed to be quite user friendly.

[malcygoff.livejournal.com]

heh, the Linux need grabs me every once in a while... I spend about two weeks playing with it, getting it to do what I want and behave like I want it to - then I realise that to get the same result with Windows takes about 30 minutes; and I can play EverQuest 2.

The thing that really gets me though, is the cooing over the freeness of it, especailly when you the £450 PC I bought a year and a bit back came with Windows and my iMac, OS-X; so no further financial investment is needed!

Still, competition and alternatives are often a good thing.