Ubuntu on iMac 233Mhz

I guess this falls in the just because I can folder but a few weeks ago a parent dropped off a beautiful indigo iMac 233 Mhz with 192 mb of RAM at Natalie’s school. Now I know that this machine is essentially an anchor and that most IT departments wouldn’t bother but I thought that I’d take it home and turn it into a) A goldfish bowl (That was way too time consuming even for me) b) A cat bed (this may still happen) or c) see how it runs with edubuntu. This photo shows it happily making progress.

And all I did was found the ubuntu site and got the correct powerpc download. Yes I have had to install the old  6.10 version (edgy eft) but all seemed to go very smoothly (like I doubted it). So will see how this goes.

I guess since we found that Microsoft aren’t supporting OS X office 08 for schools alternatives are my flavor of the month. Must say I have yet to miss having office at home. I guess keynote is better anyway, as I read on Presentation Zen the other day as something to take to the powerpoint design team ” copy keynote and improve on that”  Excel yeah maybe but I promise I’ll admit it if it ever comes up and I left word behind a while ago. I do still save all my documents in .doc format by default but as more things are done in google docs this is less of an issue. 

I’m looking forward to trailing the open office aqua as opposed to neooffice but that might be just being picky.

So enough about me how did ubuntu run on the iMac well…