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[Franko]

@ Nicholas

Cheers mate... I think... :confused:

Erm... bit of a dummy when it comes to macs, is that a cd or dvd I burn it to... :confused:

Will I lose all my data, progs, passwords, cookies etc... if I do this ?

I don't have any backup OSX discs if it goes wrong...

I assume Lubuntu is a different OS system...

Or is this all just a plot to blow up me mac and stop me posting nonsense on Amiga.org... :roflmao:

PS:The bill broke down as

1GB Memory Upgrade  £60
160GB Hard Disk £48
DVDRW Drive  £25
Upgrade OSX 10.2 to OSX10.4.11
Call Out Charge £55
Labour £192

Total Cost £380

(Spot the Mug or What ... )

[tone007]

You can try Ubuntu this way as well: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/10.04/release/

The desktop CD image (livecd) they offer will allow you to boot into Ubuntu (which is Linux, of course,) without changing the data on your hard drive.  If you don't like it, you can pop the CD out and reboot into OSX.

I've got Ubuntu running on various PCs and PPC Macs, I have to say I prefer it to OS X by a long shot, especially considering the version of OS X supported on the PPC Macs is a couple of years old already.

[Franko]

Cheers Tone,

I'll give that way a try first, as I say I have no way of reinstalling OSX back on this mac and don't want to lose any of the data on it.

Anything has to be better than OSX10.4 which I find terribly slow...

[nicholas]

@ Nicholas

Cheers mate... I think... :confused:

Erm... bit of a dummy when it comes to macs, is that a cd or dvd I burn it to... :confused:

Either mate, it's only small so it will fit on a blank CD.

Will I lose all my data, progs, passwords, cookies etc... if I do this ?

I don't have any backup OSX discs if it goes wrong...

Yep, unless you backup your data first.

I assume Lubuntu is a different OS system...

Or is this all just a plot to blow up me mac and stop me posting nonsense on Amiga.org... :roflmao:

It's a version on Linux that runs well on low-end hardware like your iMac.

PS:The bill broke down as

1GB Memory Upgrade  £60
160GB Hard Disk £48
DVDRW Drive  £25
Upgrade OSX 10.2 to OSX10.4.11
Call Out Charge £55
Labour £192

Total Cost £380

(Spot the Mug or What ... )

You could have bought a brand new Intel Mac Mini for a couple of quid more!

[tone007]

The LiveCD will seem pretty slow as well, since obviously CD access times are much higher than hard disk access times, but at least you'll get to see what it looks like.

[nicholas]

Cheers Tone,

I'll give that way a try first, as I say I have no way of reinstalling OSX back on this mac and don't want to lose any of the data on it.

Anything has to be better than OSX10.4 which I find terribly slow...

To do that you'll need to burn this but it'll run like a dog on such a low spec machine, even slower than OSX 10.4.

Lubuntu is much more lightweight than it's daddy.

[tone007]

I'm curious now, I've only run OSX on my iMac (which is identical to Franko's.) I think I'll try the LiveCD to see how it runs. (if it runs!)

[Franko]

@ Tone & Nicholas

I've got a spare 500Gb external Sata HD & one of the little SATA to USB adapters, I'll backup all my data first then give it a try (might take a while though it's only USB1.1)

I picked up the iMac at an action for £65 and thought, that looks like a bargain, and as I was too busy decorating at the time I thought I'll get someone in to set it up for me, it won't cost much... Boy was I wrong...

It was only after that I discovered that for a couple of hundred quid more I could have bought a new one, more money than sense me...

(Never thought I'd see the day when I was seriously talking about Macs...)

[Karlos]

For me, getting second hand apple hardware to run a different OS is revenge for the time I actually had to use an early, crap slow and buggy OSX on a G3 iMac. Man I hated it!

If I ever get a Mac, it will be a PPC mac to run morphos / linux...

[tone007]

I can't seem to get the Ubuntu LiveCD booting on my iMac.  Seems they're problem machines.  Oh well.

[persia]

Frankly I don't see what people see in Linux.  At work I run a Virtual Linux box as a web server and it does great at that.  But as a web server it doesn't need a gui and it runs happily by itself, which is how Linux seems the happiest.  

Every once in a while I try a Virtual Linux box just to see how it works, I've tried KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, Openbox, E17 and none of the Windows managers impressed me as something I'd want as my main OS.  The whole this seems designed by geeks for geeks and frankly a waste of time for me.

[Karlos]

Every once in a while I try a Virtual Linux box just to see how it works, I've tried KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, Openbox, E17 and none of the Windows managers impressed me as something I'd want as my main OS.  The whole this seems designed by geeks for geeks and frankly a waste of time for me.

That's because your window manager is not your OS.

[nicholas]

Frankly I don't see what people see in Linux.  At work I run a Virtual Linux box as a web server and it does great at that.  But as a web server it doesn't need a gui and it runs happily by itself, which is how Linux seems the happiest.  

Every once in a while I try a Virtual Linux box just to see how it works, I've tried KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, Openbox, E17 and none of the Windows managers impressed me as something I'd want as my main OS.  The whole this seems designed by geeks for geeks and frankly a waste of time for me.

Stick with what you like then.

[runequester]

Frankly I don't see what people see in Linux.  At work I run a Virtual Linux box as a web server and it does great at that.  But as a web server it doesn't need a gui and it runs happily by itself, which is how Linux seems the happiest.  

Every once in a while I try a Virtual Linux box just to see how it works, I've tried KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, Openbox, E17 and none of the Windows managers impressed me as something I'd want as my main OS.  The whole this seems designed by geeks for geeks and frankly a waste of time for me.

To be frank, I don't see what people see in windows or os X. But then, we can all choose what we want, and that's pretty much why life is awesome, isn't it ?

[Franko]

To be Franko, I think I'll just have to stick with crapple OSX 10.4...

Backed up all my data, burnt the ISO, popped it in, booted up....

Nothing except for a black screen, waited for about an hour & nothing happend... (tried a couple of times)

Ah well, thanks anyway guys it was worth a try, I'll need to scour the net and see if I can find any info on how to get it up and running on such an old mac...

Cheers :drink:

Franko

[psxphill]

According to Steve Jobs, the Mac now makes up 20% of total computer sales. I personally know of about a dozen people that have switched from PC to Mac,but none that have gone the other way....

Just because people choose a Mac over a PC, doesn't make it a good choice. The main requirement is more money than sense. Most people know more about cars than computers & they just buy a car they can afford and like the look of.
 
If you've ever been in pc world when one of their sales people are upselling, you'd realise just how clueless everyone is.