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Y100
April 30th, 2010, 10:15 AM
Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask if there's any Ubuntu Studio release which is compatible with a Mac PowerBook G4 (1.25 GHz, 512 MB Ram, OS X 10.4.11) with PowerPc CPU. If there's any, could you please tell me where to find it?
Thank you all

natgab
May 16th, 2010, 12:34 PM
Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask if there's any Ubuntu Studio release which is compatible with a Mac PowerBook G4 (1.25 GHz, 512 MB Ram, OS X 10.4.11) with PowerPc CPU. If there's any, could you please tell me where to find it?
Thank you all

Ubuntu Studio is only available in Intel86 / AMD64, PowerPC. You can install a std version of Ubuntu PPC and then add the Ubuntu Studio pkg manually using Synaptic. (Not the add/remove from the Gnome menu.)

This will install all the applications and also give you the look & feel of Ubuntu Studio by adding the themes / wallpapers. The only way you will notice it is not a real Ubuntu Studio is from the actual Ubuntu icon on the menu that has not changed to the blue one from Ubuntu Studio.

I did this when I had a PowerMac G5, and it even worked in 64-bit mode.