Screenshots: Dist-upgrade of Ubuntu ppc |
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Thursday, 11 October 2007 | |||||
I had the chance to do an upgrade-dist of Ubuntu 6.10 ppc (PowerPC edition) recently when my 3-year-old daughter corrupted her Mac OS X Panther on her PowerPC-based Mac mini. She uses the Mac Mini mainly for Movies playback and learning on how to type. I decided to dual-boot Mac OS X Panther on my daughter's 2-year-old Mac mini a few months ago with Ubuntu 6.10 ppc, because of the fear that she may destroy her Panther and I do not have the time to fix the Panther. I called it the "911 strategy". The reason why I chose Ubuntu 6.10 ppc instead of its counterparts ( Fedora, Yellow Dog or openSUSE) was a very simple one. My daughter could turn off the Ubuntu 6.10 ppc even though it was her first time with Ubuntu 6.10 ppc. Maybe it's something that she has acquired while playing with Mac OS X and Windows XP.
For your information Ubuntu 6.10 aka Edgy Eft is supported until April 2008 and Ubuntu 7.04 aka Feisty Fawn will be supported until October 2008. Of course, those who had opted to install the PowerPC version of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS on their Apple Macs will receive a very much support, till June 2009.
I opted for an upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 ppc via the internet with the help of the graphical tools found on the Ubuntu 6.10 ppc. After I updated the Ubuntu 6.10 ppc, I launched the Update Manager located at System Menu-->Administration.
A dialog appeared after the Update Manager reached the stage of fetching and installing the upgrades. I was asked if I wanted to start the upgrade.
Started fetching the files. It took 5 hours to complete. It was worth the wait. I was really hoping to see new features of 7.04.
Searching for obsolete packages! Well, the reasons why I wanted to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04 ppc was because I wanted to use the Desktop Effects tool and also the Restricted Drivers Manager tool, besides the supports for Ubuntu 7.04 untill October 2007.
Found the obsolete packages and I was asked if I wanted to remove those obsolete packages.
Obsolete packages were being removed!
Completed my dist-upgrade of Ubuntu-6.10 ppc to Ubuntu-7.04 ppc. Nothing untoward occured during the whole process and my daughter could still play her ppracer and my wife can still use it to update her blog securely off and on. With the availability of the Desktop Effects tool, I could make the windows on the Ubuntu 7.04 ppc, residing on my daughter's Mac mini wobble and the desktop rotate like a cube.
By the way, I am still slowly contemplating on whether to install openSUSE 10.3 ppc and also the upcoming Fedora 8 ppc, since Ubuntu ppc is not offici- ally supported by Canonical anymore. If I can coax my daughter to let me install Fedora 8 and openSUSE 10.3, I might have the time to do a review on those PowerPC-based Linux distribution, which are still offically suppor- by Fedora and openSUSE. Thank you very much for going through my short article/screenshots.
By Michael Shee Choon Beng.
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