Today I found my orderd Ubuntu CDs in my (snail) mail box. Seems like this is the day that I’ll give Linux a try. A year ago I was playing around with Fedora (on x86) but I thought it might be to early to use it on a regular basis. A year has passed, I heard a lot good things about Ubuntu, not to say enthusiastic – a friend believes it’s the future. However, I orderd (instead of downloading) a few CDs for me and to give it to some friends, coworkers, etc.
Slowly I prepared everthing for the new baby, partitioned an external hard drive, backed up my working system (you know murphy?) and repaired my bike. OK, for the beginning I’m trying the Live-CD… which just directly boots into open firmware and stops there. Searching through ubuntu forums I found some hints regarding this issue, tried them, no luck. Well, at least I achieved an authentic kernel panic. OK, let’s give the install CD a try, same thing, it boots into open firmware followed by a kernel panic, restart. If you are sufficiently motivated there are of course ways to get this system up and running on an iMac G5. But for me it seemed way to complicated just for a try on an afternoon.
Anyway, once I got motivated to put Linux on my machine I went over to the Fedora project. But before downloading the whole 2.8GB DVD I googled if it’s even possible to install and run Fedora on an iMac G5. And no, it’s not possible, well following to some user reviews it’s possible as long as you don’t hear the alarm sound (!?!). There must be some issues with the system sound and iMac hardware in Fedora Core 4 which provokes a system crash.
After all I guess I’ll have to wait another year before trying Linux again on PPC. Meanwhile Mac OS X Tiger is not the worst choice.
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