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Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4
Posted by Simonft1 on Wed 7 May 2008 at 21:23
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I have in installed Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4 and am in the proses of seeing if most KDE apps will work on it. So far i have installed the latest versions of Katapult and Ksmothdock. Both seem to work fine, except for Katapult freezing the computer the first time it loaded. However, after that it worked fine. Yakuake is the next KDE app i will try to install.
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Re: Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4
Posted by ajt (85.211.xx.xx) on Wed 7 May 2008 at 23:05
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Katapult and Yakuake I know well and use on Etch/Lenny KDE systems I have.

I'm not familiar with KSmoothDock and I see it's not yet in a Debian repository. Is it that much better than the normal KDE kicker?

As your not using AMD64 or i386 what's the package coverage like for the G4 processor? Have you found anything you can't have yet?

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"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
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Re: Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4
Posted by Simonft1 (160.39.xx.xx) on Thu 8 May 2008 at 00:14
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KSmoothDock is terrible (in my opinion), so i don't us it anymore. I can't have flash which is a little bit annoying, but besides that i have found nothing. I am having to do a reinstall of kubuntu though because at random points the computer will freeze. I think it might have something to do with Katapult, but I dont know. I will install just Katapult for a while on the fresh install and see what happens.

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Re: Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4
Posted by Anonymous (217.216.xx.xx) on Thu 8 May 2008 at 21:16
"I can't have flash..."

Have you tried gnash? It's under heavy development now but worth a try.

At least it's better than nothing :)

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Re: Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4
Posted by Anonymous (160.39.xx.xx) on Fri 9 May 2008 at 02:23
Yes, and it does not work. Seems to be under really really heavy development.

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Re: Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4
Posted by Anonymous (217.216.xx.xx) on Fri 9 May 2008 at 19:52
http://www.gnashdev.org/?q=node/52

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Re: Kubuntu on a PowerBook G4
Posted by dkg (216.254.xx.xx) on Sat 10 May 2008 at 00:03
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I think the poster above is referring to gnash 0.8.2, which is in in the latest version of kubuntu, from what i can tell, so assuming yer on kubuntu 8.04, you've probably got the latest version.

Simonft1, when you say it does not work (about gnash), can you be more specific? Is there a particular .swf file you've tried it on that crashes it? Are there certain web pages that don't work? Does it crash your browser? Are you able to reproduce any of the reported ubuntu bugs or debian bugs?

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