Volition

I would have used this a lot! Cool. And I probably will again when I have a house and the resulting collection of machines.

(BTW, I have now lived sans computer for nearly five months. It's been awesome.)

(ABTW, I'm going to see if I can swing it so my new laptop is going to be dual-boot Debian/OSX and share filesystems... masochism is in this year, and no ntfsresize in sight.)

Posted by: Joel on December 15, 2004 11:05 PM

You know, I don't think I've pimped Ubuntu enough today. Check it out, I don't know if there is a live CD for PPC, but it is a first-class supported platform.

However if you're still in love with WM, you may need to go for plain old Debian. Ubuntu is Gnome-centric.

Does this mean you're now not sans-hardware anymore? How was The Rest of the World, anyway?

Posted by: Mike on December 15, 2004 11:55 PM

No, I'm still sans hardware (other, obviously, than at work). But I'm so close to going shopping you can actually, if you listen closely, hear me salivating.

WM always used to claim GNOME compatibility, though I don't know how true that is nowadays.

I think for the things I want a pretty GUI world to play in, OSX will be fine. GNOME is good, but I think I can live without it. For the rest of my life (which is to say, 80% of it), ION is still what I really want from my (non-)desktop environment.

I haven't jumped distros in a while though, so if it does have a PPC install, I shall still go and look for this Ubuntu of which you speak :)

Posted by: Joel on December 21, 2004 03:55 AM

A quick look at Ubuntu is enough to make me want to give it a go - just shopping for the aforementioned Little Titanium Thing now, actually.

w00t w00t!

PS - Happy Doomy Season Mike :)

Posted by: Joel on December 29, 2004 10:20 PM

(And yes, it clearly does have a PPC install disk. :love:)

Posted by: Joel on December 29, 2004 10:21 PM