which version for ibook 500mhz

Hi, am I right that your ibook is a G3 PowerPC?

The problem is that Ubuntu does no longer officially support the powerpc architecture since 6.10 I think. But there is a community supported version for powerpc here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04/release/

Maybe you should try the livecd an see if it works without having to install

Regards,
Pascal

Hi,

Thanks for reply. Yes I have G3 PowerPC iBook.  There have been posts recommending various distros of Ubuntu: 6.10; and 7.04 notably.  There have been reports of bugs however, such as sleep mode doesn't work, screen res problems.  I want to find someone who is running Ubuntu(or Xbuntu) on my machine and tell me what they've been successful.
Is eg. alt CD  better than live Cd? If all else fails I'll try 8.04 live Cd and see what happens.

BTW, I'm having no success at iso download.  I get halfway thru and stalls.  I've tried five times from different download sites, and can't seem to get thru download.  I've even downloaded bitTorrent client and tried that unsuccessfully.
 Laurence

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Subject: Re: [Question #41527]: which version for ibook 500mhz
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Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 5:04 PM

Your question #41527 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/41527

    Status: Open => Answered

Pascal Bach proposed the following answer:
Hi, am I right that your ibook is a G3 PowerPC?

The problem is that Ubuntu does no longer officially support the powerpc
architecture since 6.10 I think. But there is a community supported
version for powerpc here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04/release/

Maybe you should try the livecd an see if it works without having to
install

Regards,
Pascal

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Hi again,

I downloaded 8.04 iso from your link and burned CD on Mac per instructions and attempted to boot from CD. Merely inserting CD and restarting would not boot. I restarted holding down "C" key-which in Mac allows booting from disc.  After a LONG wait Ubuntu did boot directly to a corrupted Gnome desktop which only filled three quarters of screen and repeated itself below-i.e. I had one and one quarter desktop images on my screen with a black corridor to the right.  Firefox could not bring up websites.  I attempted to shut down and computer hung up in no-man's land. I had to force shut down computer. Fortunately I was able to reboot in Mac OS.  What to do know???  I really want to set up Ubuntu and be done with Apple.

Laurence

--- On Thu, 8/7/08, Pascal Bach <email address hidden> wrote:
From: Pascal Bach <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #41527]: which version for ibook 500mhz
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Thursday, August 7, 2008, 5:04 PM

Your question #41527 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/41527

    Status: Open => Answered

Pascal Bach proposed the following answer:
Hi, am I right that your ibook is a G3 PowerPC?

The problem is that Ubuntu does no longer officially support the powerpc
architecture since 6.10 I think. But there is a community supported
version for powerpc here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04/release/

Maybe you should try the livecd an see if it works without having to
install

Regards,
Pascal

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I can only tell you what I did. I had an iMac 3G where I wanted to install Xubuntu. I could not use the Live CD there because it only had 256MB of ram but I could successfully install Xubuntu 6.06.

I recently tried to reanimate it using the community supported PowerPC version 8.04 Ubuntu with the alternate installer but I had no success.

So maybe you should try the alternate installer of the newest version or if it doesn't work maybe 6.06 is worth a trail.

Regards,
Pascal