Tony Travis wrote: > Dennis Holdroyd wrote: >> Thanks Rob your blog brought many happy hours back in recall with me >> learning to program on a ZX81 and before that a ZX80 with dad >> complaining I was taking over the TV and messing about!!! he bought me >> an old set for my room pure bliss Den > > Hello, Dennis. > > You were lucky [Oh, no - not that thread again!]... > > Seriously, though, there was once an interesting diversity of PC > hardware that has almost vanished down the Wintel plug-hole. > > One of the few criticisms I would level at Ubuntu is for dropping it's > support of the IBM 'Power' architecture. This is not just about running > Ubuntu on Mac's, it's also about running Ubuntu on PS3's, which have an > IBM Power architecture 'Cell' processor. Sony obviously think there is a > market for Linux because they officially support TerraNova's Yellow Dog > Linux on the PS3. > > Anyway, the 'community' version of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) works very well > on my 15" LCD iMac. I'll continue using Ubuntu on it as long as I can! > > Tony.
Hopefully the community version of Ubuntu 7.10 will work on the Playstation 3 too. I'll then have another friend converted to Ubuntu. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/