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20060508 Monday May 08, 2006

Dapper

I just downloaded Ubuntu 6.06 Beta 2 (Dapper Drake) for PowerPC and gave it a try on my Powerbook G4. Pretty impressive actually! Started without a flaw, network worked, looked great on the screen, came with OpenOffice.org 2.0 and Firefox. This could be a way to recycle old Apple kit once the move to Intel takes hold and the universal binaries stop...

Posted by webmink ( May 08 2006, 04:07:00 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [1]
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Maybe Ubuntu is interesting also until OSX on x86 gets performance competitive. In the benchmark (using R for statistical computing) Linux versus Mac OS X and Windows XP on Intel Dual Core it didn't score very well.

Posted by Marco Fabbri on May 09, 2006 at 12:55 AM PDT #

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