{"id":223,"date":"2004-10-09T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T13:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=223"},"modified":"2004-10-09T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-09T13:02:00","slug":"ubuntuppc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/09\/ubuntuppc","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu\/PPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. Just installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntulinux.org\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> (daily ISO) on the iMac DV SE. It all just works. Sound is auto-configured, X is auto-configured (like everything!), nice 2.6.8 kernel, mouse button emualtion works out of the box. <tt>smbfs<\/tt> isn&#8217;t installed by default, it lacks MP3 support (doh, all sane distros do), but everything about it and its GNOME integration make it very clean. Interesting to note that Epiphany isn&#8217;t installed, but Firefox is the default browser! 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