Todd came by this weekend to help me breath some life into my 300 MHz Blueberry iBook. So far the performance is mixed. I'm not a coder, and this is my first foray into the "alternate opertaing system lifestyle." That is if you don't count OS X. Of course OS X was more polished, but what surprised me was that it seemed quicker. I installed a copy of Xubuntu Linux, thinking that due to it's lighter system requirements, it would be faster. I was wrong. It is quite a nice system. I'd like to try it on a faster setup. I was thinking about my B&W G3, but it requires special software to tell OS X a G4 chip has been transplanted into it. Xubuntu may not be able to take advantage of the extra muscle that was squeezed out of that thing. So, I will probably not worry about installing it on this system just yet. Overall, Xubuntu was more plush than I thought it would be. But, I do have quite a bit to learn.
Monday, December 11, 2006
Learnin' Linux
Todd came by this weekend to help me breath some life into my 300 MHz Blueberry iBook. So far the performance is mixed. I'm not a coder, and this is my first foray into the "alternate opertaing system lifestyle." That is if you don't count OS X. Of course OS X was more polished, but what surprised me was that it seemed quicker. I installed a copy of Xubuntu Linux, thinking that due to it's lighter system requirements, it would be faster. I was wrong. It is quite a nice system. I'd like to try it on a faster setup. I was thinking about my B&W G3, but it requires special software to tell OS X a G4 chip has been transplanted into it. Xubuntu may not be able to take advantage of the extra muscle that was squeezed out of that thing. So, I will probably not worry about installing it on this system just yet. Overall, Xubuntu was more plush than I thought it would be. But, I do have quite a bit to learn.
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