Switching from MACOS X to Ububtu Linux (having issues)

[MaxXimus]

I just very recently decided to install Ubuntu onto my Imac, and everything works great. The problem I am having is that I can't find any packages for download(software/games/anything really) that is compatible with the PPC version of Ubuntu. Everything I dins says it isn't the proper architecture. Most of the packages I am trying to download were specifically made for Ubuntu, so I don't know what's going on. If I don't figure out exactly what's happening soon, I am going to switch back.

[UglyJoe]

Your repositories may be setup wrong.  Try going here:

http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/

and generate a list of repositories.  Hopefully they can give you more PPC love.

To be honest, though, I don't think I'd take Ubuntu over OSX on a PPC.  On an Intel Mac, maybe, but not PPC. 

[MaxXimus]

Yeah. I really am tempted to switch back. I may leave this os as a partition but I am not sure yet. All I know is that at this point I am stuck with Ubuntu(until I get my OSX install discs back.)
Thanks for the info though!

[kite200]

why would you use linux instead of mac os x 10.5?

[MaxXimus]

10.5 would be very slugish on my system
imac g4 17" display
512 megs ram
80 gig hd

Plus for some reason the DVD drive only reads CD's... I'll either replace that or just get an external.

[133MHz]

Yeah one of my friends has a G3 and it runs Mac OS X very slowly, I'm going to tell him to look into Linux for PPC.

[kite200]

well I don't know, I'm running Leopard on my computer that I built with these specs

AMD athlon x2 3800+
2GB corsair ram
Asus a8n sli premium
250gb western digital hard drive
nvidia 7800gt 256mb pci-e graphics card
nec dual layer dvd burner


everything works great and it's reallllllly fast. you may want to build a computer for a few hundred and take the time and effort to install mac os on it, but it's not for the faint of heart

[133MHz]

Does it work with all the hardware you've got? And things like printers/scanners/wireless adapters/tv cards/etc work correctly too? That's the main reason putting me off of Mac OS on generic x86 or Vista - hardware support.

[kite200]

everything works 100%

[MaxXimus]

I thought AMD wasnt supported?

Oh yeah. I did a fresh install of OSX today, so everything is peachy again.

[133MHz]

AFAIK you need the SSE3 instruction set to run Mac OSx86, which the Athlon 64 supports.

[kite200]

^ what he said

[MaxXimus]

I just visited a popular torrent site, and apparently there is an AMD patch now anyways.

[kite200]

for leopard? oh yeah, there is but it's crap.

I made my own install disc >.>

[MaxXimus]

From scratch, or did you use someone elses code?