Need help installing Ubuntu Studio on my PPC G5 Powermac

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Need help installing Ubuntu Studio on my PPC G5 Powermac

I currently have a Powermac g5 PPC G5 DP 2.3. I have 10.5.8 running fine. I want to set a new partition and want to install Ubuntu Studio as my great love is recording and I'm dying to run Ubuntu as a new toy! What's the BEST build of Ubuntu Studio that will run on a PPC chip? How do I install it - will it boot from the DVD or CD? Also will it give me a dual-boot menu to choose what OS I want to use? Any help would be great as I'm a novice to Linux although I tried out a live CD on my Windows 7 laptop and was liking the new "drug"

What partitioning software will I need (hopefully to repartition on the fly) and what build of Ubuntu Studio works with a PPC and maybe some instructions is what I'm needing... HELP!

I do use Ardour and Mixbus on my Mac and actually enjoy it. OS X RULZ but I want to experiment with Ubuntu.

Powermac DP 2.3-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5.8), external DVR-109 - 3 external 120-gig FW HD's

Posted on Nov 16, 2011 4:14 AM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Nov 16, 2011 10:58 AM in response to Pat-italiano-Valella

Hi Pat, it looks like it's Intel only...

Supported platforms	IA-32, x86-64

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Studio

No idea if the original Ubuntu Studio 8.04 was ever ported to PPC.

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Answer 2

Swampus

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Nov 16, 2011 1:16 PM in response to Pat-italiano-Valella

You can install the standard version of Ubuntu PowerPC and then use Synaptic to install the studio packages. Really, though, I'd stick with Leopard on your G5. The last version of Ubuntu officially supported on PowerPC was 6.10. Every version since then has been community supported and, while their efforts are impressive, there is simply no way to compare this to the resources that Apple put into developing the MacOS for use on PowerPCs for so many years.

IMHO, you'd be much better off getting a used Intel box for Ubuntu Studio. Anything with a multi-threaded Pentium 4 or better will provide plenty enough power for a decent user experience.

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