{"id":400,"date":"2005-04-26T13:14:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-26T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-10-04T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:28:48","slug":"changing-to-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/26\/changing-to-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing to Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 13GB waste of space that was the unused MacOS X<\/a> partition is gone. So is the very much hacked Debian<\/a> Unstable (was living up to its name too much) partition. Currently am installing Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog on my PowerBook.<\/p>\n

I may still have to run a custom kernel (sleep support) – but that’s not going to worry me too much. It’s the fact that things are stable for six months that’s making me excited. No more worrying about if a dist-upgrade will break everything.<\/p>\n

You can chuck in the LiveCD on PPC and get a working<\/b> X configuration. Woah.<\/p>\n

Also been playing (briefly) with f-spot<\/a> on my desktop. Is pretty cool. I’m going to start using it for all my photos. Looks like it scales okay too! The import of my existing photos went pretty smoothly. Some of the dates are totally borked – but hopefully that’s an easy fix to the code. I think i might join the mailing list and make some suggestions (as well as try my hand at implementing some myself). Pulling the source from CVS and trying it out was real<\/b> easy – this is a good sign.<\/p>\n

I can’t wait until the version of Mono is upgraded so I can run Beagle! When f-spot, Beagle and Dashboard hit the pre-installed stage on linux distros, we’re going to have a real set of killer apps<\/b> to bring people over from the dark side. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 13GB waste of space that was the unused MacOS X partition is gone. So is the very much hacked Debian Unstable (was living up to its name too much) partition. Currently am installing Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog on my PowerBook. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-6s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3365,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/switching-to-fedora-from-ubuntu\/","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":0},"title":"Switching to Fedora from Ubuntu","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2013-07-05","format":false,"excerpt":"I've run Ubuntu on my desktop (well... and laptop) since roughly the first release back in 2004. 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