Ubuntu or Debian??

[Selon]

My Ibook G3 is right on the line between old world and new? (took me a
while to figure that one out)
I have 64ram and 233Processor 6gigHD, Any feasible options?

so, who likes Ubuntu over Debian? visavirsa . .

(please be sure to mention what what kind of of machine your running
when your jocking your OS)

=AARON

[Lorenzo]

Post by Selon
My Ibook G3 is right on the line between old world and new? (took me a
while to figure that one out)
I have 64ram and 233Processor 6gigHD, Any feasible options?
so, who likes Ubuntu over Debian? visavirsa . .
(please be sure to mention what what kind of of machine your running
when your jocking your OS)
=AARON

I run Gentoo and have been for about a year and a half, I've never used
Ubuntu, but I ran Debian for about a year. I liked it, but they take
their time in delivering new packages. This is a good thing mind you, it
makes for a stable machine. I needed Apache 2 before they were ready to
release it. I don't disparage them for that though and would recommend
highly.

[sam tygier]

if you want to run X then you probably need more ram.

it probably easier to make debain happy in a low ram situation, but ubuntu has all the light window managers in it universe repository.

i use ubuntu on a powerbook G4 1ghz, because i didn't want to have to spend much time setting it all up.

if it is old world, then you might want to look at yellowdog linux

sam tygier

Post by Lorenzo

Post by Selon
My Ibook G3 is right on the line between old world and new? (took me a
while to figure that one out)
I have 64ram and 233Processor 6gigHD, Any feasible options?
so, who likes Ubuntu over Debian? visavirsa . .
(please be sure to mention what what kind of of machine your running
when your jocking your OS)
=AARON

I run Gentoo and have been for about a year and a half, I've never used
Ubuntu, but I ran Debian for about a year. I liked it, but they take
their time in delivering new packages. This is a good thing mind you, it
makes for a stable machine. I needed Apache 2 before they were ready to
release it. I don't disparage them for that though and would recommend
highly.

[e.c.sharpe]

I tried Ubuntu on my b&w powermac G3 (screamin' 350 MHz, 644 MB RAM) but the installer kept crashing and once I did get it installed it was pretty buggy. YMMV of course. The Debian Sarge install I have now is rock solid, as are all the apps I've used so far. I did use the Ubuntu archive (Hoary, but it's commented out normally -- don't use Breezy sources with Sarge or it'll break!) for a few multimediia pkgs. It's ony been a few weeks but so far I'm very happy with it. Also the Debian Sarge netinstaller is extremely fast and easy while still allowing a fine degree of control, whereas Ubuntu just slaps a whole bunch of software on by default without giving one a lot of choice. Gnome-heads possibly won't mind that, but I found it quite annoying. This machine also boots OS X but Debian is so much faster and more satisfying, especially with windowmaker.
:)

ecs


On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 15:15:41 -0500

Post by Selon
My Ibook G3 is right on the line between old world and new? (took me a
while to figure that one out)
I have 64ram and 233Processor 6gigHD, Any feasible options?
so, who likes Ubuntu over Debian? visavirsa . .
(please be sure to mention what what kind of of machine your running
when your jocking your OS)
=AARON